The grim, cruel, dark 2.5 storyline could have easily been used to open up the way for content like Dynamis in FF14's 3 cities starting with Uldah.

This would have been a great way to continue three nation storylines alongside expansions.

I am sad at the way the expansion went, because the Uldah storyline relying on intrigue grew to be lot more interesting overall compared with Heavensward.