Quote Originally Posted by ExESGO View Post
It's been that way since Shadowbringers and got worse during Endwalker ie. Thavnair and Garlemald. I think Dawntrail has better more organic zone design versus Endwalker, but it's still not up there as ARR's. For context I do adore ARR's zone design and consider it peak zone design in the game.
I feel like Shadowbringers was the first time they didn't really have a plan. You saw it in the MSQ ((Smack dab in the middle of a war...LETS GO ON AN EXPANSION LONG SIDE QUEST! PEOPLE LOVE GRAHA, RIGHT?!)) you saw it in the zones (( a bunch of zones with no real interconnecting theme)) and you saw it with job designs. I don't know what happened in Stormblood that broke the team but if I had a time machine, fixing that would be on my list. Further down but on the list.