Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
Simple, the entire plotline of ARR right through to whatever 6.0 or 7.0 is called, will always fit neatly into a time period of less than a year.
True, but at the same time those events might have (and logically should have) taken longer. We might have spent a year in the events of ARR, a month hiding out at Dragonhead waiting to get in to Ishgard, three months travelling to Dravania, another two to resolve Heavensward, at least a month at sea traveling to Othard.... and still fit all of that and all our future travels into the space of a year.

It's time-bending logic. The bubble doesn't mean that everything happens simulaneously - there's a sequence to the events that happen in it, but that sequence of events can take longer than the amount of time that the bubble occupies on a broader timeline.