Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
This is right. The content IS there, it's just distributed in a different way.

The content that in ShB made up the Bozja/Zadnor zones, the relic grind and the large scale duties, is instead spent on Island Sanctuary, Variant/Criterion dungeons, and the new Deep Dungeon.
The design is less efficient, less impactful, but from an outside PoV it seems to have taken more or less the same resources. So it's not about dev time, its about design choices.
Spot on. Keep in mind we just got a Deep Dungeon whereas ShB didn't get one. There are lots of things that "skip expansions."
ARR: PotD
HW: none
SB: HoH
ShB: none
EW: Orthos

That's just one example. There are probably others. EW doesn't appear to be getting a Eureka/Bozja zone, but it doesn't mean we haven't gotten content. Personally, I think a lot of this mindset is simply one's perception or better yet... a predisposition to look for the negative.