Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
Endwalker and on has been them trying to speedrun as much of the established lore as they could for no apparent reason. 6.0 rushed through Garlemald, Sharlayan, Thavnair, the moon, and even the past while also establishing that the other civilizations in the universe had either wiped themselves out or were extinguished by Meteion. The MSQ in 6.1 and on rushed through the Bounty and 13th while also going through various other locations in the form of dungeons(variants and normal) and killing everything related to the Twelve. With 7.0 having now crossed off two more continents and another shard, we're left with Ilsabard's cloud donut, Meracydia, Koshu, and the 3 remaining shards assuming we don't just bounce from one to the next during the rest of the patch cycle. It's been such a colossal waste of potential and only makes it harder for them going forward, so I don't get why it happened.
I really wish they could go back and expand upon locations in future expansions. Hingashi is a prime example of that. We have access to Kugane, but haven't seen much beyond that other than Mount Rokkon, and we certainly have not had access to Bukyo.

My fear is that next expansion is going to be speedrunning two locations yet again (possibly Meracydia since it was on Emet's list, and another shard, since Y'shtola basically looked at the camera and said "as soon as you're done with the patches we're gonna be trying out your artifact") instead of focusing on a single place with a compelling story.