Well apparently I'm only allowed to write posts 1000 characters long for some reason, so pardon the multiple posts.

The beginning of the patch was, in my opinion, garbage as far as the writing goes. Predictable and contrived just so we could have Tsukuyomi.

Everything in Doma feels like filler for the main events happening in Ala Mhigo (and now Garlemald) and the scraps that are important (Asahi and Maxima, the prisoner exchange in general) could have taken place in Ala Mhigo instead with a little shifting. Moving back and forth instead of focusing on one location weakens the story for both. And I don't hate Yanxia, quite the opposite. There's a lot of fascinating lore and culture to be explored there, so it would have been awesome if we'd had, you know, an entire expansion to do that instead of being shunted back to Ala Mhigo every so often. If the story in Doma had been given more time to breathe, I feel like I'd have enjoyed it, and Yotsuyu, a whole lot more.