My dream is that our expectations are subverted and we get a new continent as a single, contiguous map, and not just exactly six new squares and two towns.

This probably won’t happen for technical reasons, though, so at the very least I would like a single, well-developed, geographically connected set of new maps (NOT only squares) that give us the illusion of something grand, a place we can travel through. Heavensward did this the best so far. Endwalker was six isolated squares, no feeling of cohesion with the new zones, either among themselves or with the old zones.

My second wish is to have characters that sound like real people when they talk. Even supposedly “fun” characters like that “wild” Thancred sound academic and unnatural. Whoever wrote the dialog in Limsa in ARR took some risks and different dialects are a lot of fun. We need more of that, not legions of characters who speak like they are reading their professor’s thesis out loud when they talk about anything at all. Many, many times character conversations make me feel like I am at work. “Let us each tend to our respective tasks!” That is not what I want to feel.

Gameplay-wise, my wish is that they do not devote any resources to new content that can ONLY be soloed. Island Sanctuary is exactly this. I am happy to have things soloable, but all content should be something you should be able to meaningfully group with others in, or benefit from their presence or contribution. IS can even be fixed to incorporate such features. We need more things to do with each other.