While it was expected for them to comr back it is just one of them situations of like... After everything they still think they have a chance? I get they're tempered and such but just...

After 5 storylines of the same thing, the story deciding to do the same thing a 6th time is just boring
:/

We finished 6.2 last night, but from the bits and pieces I've seen of S9 and its related dungeons and trials and Living Memory

Yeah the aesthetic alone is keeping me from wanting to enjoy it, along with just knowing a few story beats.

Also them bringing back the Ascians in 7.3 :v

And regretfully, given the prospects of what the 9th is like it'll be an expansion I'll be going into completely and utterly disinterested in.

Yeah, more so that I just wish the prospect of her returning was something more apparent. The girl needs something more than the vanilla mash-up she's wearing

We won't have a place if the earth dies from us neglecting the ocean, and rhe pollutants of launching things into space is only hastening it

Ah yes, let's go explore a bunch of dead rocks instead of learn more about our thriving (though sorta dying) oceans

Only for Zero to go "I still don't even know what a friend is."

Which is to say, we've just... Sorta been there.

It's hard trying to figure out how to adapt it to the story of Dance With Dragons because it's just so... there

It feels so devoid of the rest of the plot

It's why I dislike Shadowbringers. They literally yank us towards that expansion's storyline with a dues ex machina.

And yes, I know in DT we have a MacGuffin that lets us go to other shards easily or something, but like come on

There's soooooo much of Eorzea to explore still.

And the Void, that plot has once again had a pin put into it.

For comparison sake

Gaze upon the vision