Quote Originally Posted by GrizzlyTank View Post
Essentially, the story have lost the intricacies and connections that made it more mature. Following the fall of the empire we now lack through world building that went on previously and are left with much more isolated and simpler stories.

Sharlaya was too sterilized in EW and became friendly with us too easily, a nation that straight up bailed on their old territory at the hint of resistance and would send assassins to deal with wayward information, and Garlemald cut too short.
Funny that the foundations for the lore they created for 2.0 onwards wasn't even built by Yoshida's team. They just borrowed what was there and modified or built on top of it. The moment they had to make a new saga from scratch it turns out to be like disney movie aimed exclusively at kids and riddled with inconsistencies.