I cannot help but think of the level of disastrous decision making that has led us to the point where the game world is so unattractive that we have to seriously consider going off to other shards in order to get something of a story worth sticking around for. I suppose that comes with the territory when you let individual writers do away with so much of the setting as a means to prop up their favorite characters, something I would have thought obvious and ought to have been stopped during Endwalker's preproduction phase.

The Source as it is now does not hold enough interesting material for another 10 years. Rather than allowing Garlemald to play any major role in the future in the style of a post-Vayne Arcades, that nation's future was unceremoniously wrapped up in the Endwalker final role quest that drew large amounts of ire from fans of Garlemald - which by all rights should have gotten its own expansion centered on it. But no, we just had to rush headfirst into the story that ended up with 800 pages worth of criticizing how lacklustre it was.

Shard jumping shouldn't be the solution here, but unless decisions such as the fate of Garlemald are revisited and rewritten in order to make the Source more interesting then by all means get us out of it and into a new world entirely.