What I would find interesting is, despite the time bubble, how much time actually could have passed, according to time references in the story or by NPCs.
There is the comment that the Doman rebellion was about a year ago or so, for example. What exactly has been said here again?
We also travel 2-3 months to Kugane.
When I did the Heavensward story with an alt character, I also noticed an NPC say something along the lines of some weeks or months have passed since XY. I thought it was really interesting, but I just cannot remember which NPC it was and what he said. I think it was either directly in a story cutscene/dialogue, or some important NPC, or else I wouldn't have talked to him with my alt character, as I usually don't talk to every NPC when I don't have so much time to play. Does anyone remember this one? Or other references to how much time actually could have passed, were we not in a time bubble?