Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
I was under the impression that the same Famitsu interview with Yoshi-p and Matsuno from September 2021 also mentioned that when we did go to Dalmasca after said time gap, Dalmasca would be liberated. Which fits with the entire region now, given the recent collapse of the Garlean Empire. The entirety of Southern Ilsabard (Bozja/Corvos/Dalmasca) is by and large a homage to Matsuno's works, and always will be. You either build an expansion around it or you don't. You'd have the same issue writing an expansion about it in five years as you do now.
This is what I took from this interview as well. It seemed that the geopolitical landscape of the game was going to be drastically changed with Endwalker and now seemingly 7.0 (the "change" on the horizon), so continuing this side story would need to wait till the main story could catch up, giving new context to the new story.