Agreed. I felt this way about Solution 9, but this Cosmic Exploration stuff has taken it even further. The content isn't even out yet and I already resent it from the pictures alone. I'm very concerned about the artistic direction the game has been going in lately.

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The Allagan Empire existed, you know. Magitek is there too. Since ARR, even. Just because you'd like to act like Etheirys is by default a medieval setting doesn't make that statement true.
I knew someone would respond with this weak, bad faith defence. Garlean magitek and Allagan technology/architecture have unique science-fantasy aesthetics which fit into FFXIV's world well. Both are a far cry from anything we've been seeing in Dawntrail.