The final part of ARR story doesn't make enough sense.

[Dualblade]

I find it a bit easier to swallow by thinking what it would be like if this was a single player game: We wouldn't be able to go to any of these places at all (outside maybe Mor Dhona to pick up our stuff/weapon maybe.) For the sake of convience here they let us continue to go to Ul'dah et all, and even gave some reasons for why to try and justify it. Might have been better to just have a prompt come up after saying "Congratualtions on beating the ARR story! For player convience areas outside of this room/Coerthas will be as if you had just beaten Steps of Faith." Or somethin like that.

Doesn't work within the games model. FF14 has never been that type of game and will most likely never be anything like that. To do so requires them to create three different storylines to accommodate it.

Less create three seperate stories and more three seperate scenarios

1.) Fight and eventually captured
2.) Same as what we have already
3.) Either captured or ends up with us running into Thancred first, then the rest (with an altered cutscene for the other Scions being accused before they join up with us.)