What if they split the Endwalker story into two expansions

[Boblawblah]

The troll has been posting good topics lately though. Can't be bait or at least I don't see what they're trying to bait.

That's the problem when all you've done in the past is troll, every discussion you make becomes tainted with that same brush until you've proven that you're actually trying to have a discussion and not just cause drama.

On topic, trying to assume the OP is acting in good faith,

Splitting up one main story arc into two expansions would kill all momentum the story has. When you have years between expansions, expecting people to pay for TWO expansions for a single story arc would frustrate a lot of people. Sure, it might make sense narratively to some, but for most people (yes, MOST people), Endwalker was a success despite some issues.

[Ayche]

I disagree with the idea that it's filler, but I also disagree with how the OP changed it. I feel like the Garlemald section of the story is fine for the most part, but some of the events leading up to Garlemald aren't. Or maybe I should say the lack of.

We only really dealt with two of the towers that were enthralling people. The first was on Thavnair, which was the tower of zot. That was one of the regular limb towers, and there should likely be more.

We could have easily dealt with 1-2 more towers. This wouldn't even have to be dungeons either, you could have one of them in a solo instance. It's just rather strange that we deal with one tower before finding an opening to move into Garlemald and take the main tower(tower of babil).

Nah, keeping the general script the same, going into more copypasted towers would had only made a lull into the story pacing at that juncture. Tower of Zot is a mystery, bam it is solved, it opens up a bigger picture of the threat, boom you follow up on it.
Like in an action movie, you want your protagonist to storm up a place and fight his way to the antagonist straight away instead of spending screentime watching him mop up all the mooks in the building.

[Sheriyana]

I don't think it could have worked better split into two expansions. Honestly at this point I'm just glad we're done with that embarrassing joke of a story, now we at least have a theoretical chance of getting something good in the future, as long as the scions are kept as far away from the MSQ as possible, which isn't looking too great right now to be fair.