I thought Dawntrail was pretty good. The arguments against it here pretty much fall flat for me. I found no problem with the pacing in the final zone because the game never actually signaled it as a race against time, the momentum going into the zone was compatible with the momentum held throughout it. Expecting the story to suddenly change tact at the eleventh hour and no longer care about the peoples and cultures of the places we visit... it requires either a fundamental misunderstanding of the narrative or an expectation of moral absolutism that would have been unprecedented in the expansion.