FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Daralii]

Wasn't End Walker supposed to be the end of the story anyway?

EW was supposed to be a definitive end for Amaurot's influence especially, but they clearly had no idea where to go from there, so we got Azem's dimensional key immediately afterwards and now the Ascians are back in play.