there is no more growth
the expansion is literally further progress our character even more, opening all the secrets and the truth about our WOL, we finally learn the truth about ascian, and our scion friends is even growing more than i expected.

This is not what I call a final fantasy game
meanwhile, all reviewer and youtuber and people who play this game come to conclusion that this expansion is probably the most "final fantasy" game ever compare to other recent FF games

Let them get some bad press. They will be quick to fix it then.
i have a very bad news for you lol

so yeah, all in all you are in for yourself. hey if you dont like it thats fine, there are a lot of games out there and its not like you are forced to play this one anyway.