How much time has gone by...

[Brightamethyst]

Flip side, who is the time bubble harming? As far as I've been able to gather, the damage is limited to one type of person: anyone who can't wrap their head around the idea that just because the open world year hasn't visibly changed doesn't necessarily mean that everything in the game must have happened in under 365 days. If you disentangle those two concepts, it's more of a blank check than a cage, isn't it?

It's hot harming anyone, but it does make the entire concept of the timeline more confusing.

And it is immersion breaking. Nobody thinks that everything so far has actually happened in the course of a single year. That's the main issue here.

If it was about everyone playing the game differently and not seeing events in the same order that would be one thing. It's not though. The MSQ forces us all to watch the same events in the same order. My MSQ experience is the same as your is the same as everyone else. We know time must be passing between story events. We all see it happening. Acting like everything is in stasis just makes it more weird the more time passes (or doesn't.)