The many writing missteps of Dawntrain.

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The fact that there is no setup for the future expansions' own MSQ either. We went from a vacation being the maid to a political contestant, to a world-ending scenario within the same expac. There was no time to properly breathe between Endwalker and this one, no setup to be explored in 8.0. No mystery to be unearthed in the future. Even fanfiction writers know to put down some breadcrumbs for future chapters.

This plus Wuk Lamat tells me there is some fear in having player numbers dip after the climax we had last expansion (which was 10 years of buildup), so they had to pull out the big stops to keep players around.