Ivalice may not continue

[Sotatsu]

But then again they might have had more planned that ended up gutted due to covid and that they couldn't fit into the rest of their future content.

I agree the pandemic didn't help, for sure. And I was totally okay with the development team delaying patchs to maintain the overall game quality at a good level without them having to endure crazy crunch hours.

But delaying patchs, and cutting the ending of a story like this, without facing its main antagonist, who has been teased for 2 years. I don't know... I don't buy it.

To me, it would've been better to just leave us with that last cutscene after the Dalriada raid, and keep the door open for a potential sequel after Endwalker (1, 2, 5 years later, I don't mind).
Gabranth's legion is no longer affiliated with Garlemald, so it was still possible for him to continue his crusade, even with the fall of the empire.
I don't know, it feels there were better ways to end this story aside from the fieldnote "conclusion". Even an optional 1v1 boss fight against Gabranth (like the one against Varis) in a single sidequest would've been better than this.



But well... it is what it is.