I would say that DT just suffers from the story needing to "restart" after the conclusion of the OG story that's been brewing for years.

The writers have to set up a story while leaving enough for possible future stories. It's clear that they were struggling to decide where to go.

And no, having a "vacation arc" isn't really compelling for an entire expansion. Sure they didn't need to have a big ole fight with a massive save the world sequence, but they needed to have conflict, climax and ending. You can't really have that with a chill arc.

I think the story was pretty okay until the turning point with the involvement of reflections. I didn't mind a tournament storyline with some tribal/clan drama and thought they should have leaned into that rather than cheap out on another reflection needing our help. Idk the reflection bit was a cop-out IMO.

Wuk Lamat is really not the issue tbh, because she just suffers from a lackluster VA performance. But she functions as the main protagonist and I thought her journey with her and Koana understanding what it means to lead was nice.

Truth be told that WoL story is done. There's no more mysterious or origin story for us as that was revealed and explored in EW. We're only here as a vehicle for other characters to take the spotlight.

I thought that the story should have had Krile as the main character bc she's very underutilized and her voice work is more compelling. We did get some closure for her with DT but she's one of the scions whose story wasn't quite done yet.

Tbh, I wish they had done something like the Eureka storyline. For one, Krile was present and worked great as the lead for that storyline. The mystery and set dressing for Eureka was so much more interesting IMO.

Overall, I think they played it a little too safe and it showed because it felt been there done that.

I do think that the raid storyline is interesting. I'm curious with the alliance raid tho. Like Eureka, it's gonna be XI themed so there might be room for exploration on that front.