Quote Originally Posted by Dastan View Post
[...] The thing is, I DID go into Dawntrail expecting it to be a much much slower pace. It's a fresh start after Endwalker concluded.[...]
That was my expectation going into the expack too and while a lot of things in how the MSQ experience changed rubbed me the wrong way it certainly wasn't that things were too low stakes.
We're just kinda there at the moment and I remember telling people that this world ending threat just isn't going to be present yet. It's going to take a long time to build to that point.[...]
It was that they just threw that notion out the window.
They just had to have the equivalent of Galactus crashing the beach episode after little more buildup than us being on luggage duty for the new MC up to that point.
Granted that world dimension ending threat was wrapped up during the same episode in typical Saturday morning cartoon manner but it most definitely was there.

Even if magically all my other issues with DT MSQ (which have been discussed to exhaustion) disappeared that development still wouldn't sit right with me.
I have no issue with a low stakes expansion to rediscover the joy of adventuring for the sake of adventuring. I have no problem with us discovering the next big threat of this new post-Ascian arc, we were bound to.
I absolutely take issue with them realizing they were three quarters through their airtime, instantly escalating things from zero to 100 to throw a threat on a level we haven't seen since depressed TwitterX bird our way and immediately wrapping it up in time for the credits.
If our power as the WoL/D has now escalated to the level where our casual, one-off villain of the week comes with powers to threaten the multiverse as a default I really wonder what bigger threat they can still build up to or if we're going to see future stories take place exclusively in other dimensions where they can justify a lazy power reset "because it is another dimension".