The time travel part could have been done better even with the little hint that was dropped that we were going to go back to the past.

But the story just seems super rushed and localized. I have a hard time believing that Ul'dah didn't see a problem with the despair bug.

Right now having gone through the story on my alt and main I rank it below ShB and HW and even with StB at the moment. The way they handle the Garlemald situation and the reaction that one of the world's greatest adventurers is a free agent will decide where I place this story. Because just assisting Garlemald alone could cause more that a couple of problems or change how other nations look at the WoL.