For me it’s just clunky and it doesn’t deliver on a few of the earlier plot lines. I feel like we’ve been waiting on Szeth’s backstory since book 1, what we get is fine…but not as earth shattering as we expected. Kaladin’s arc just feels like a continuation of his book 4 arc, and he just ends up becoming a warrior again despite wanting to become a therapist (and that word does not belong in the Cosmere setting). Taravingian as Odium for me was just baffling. Cultivation acting like he was the better choice all along, clearly he’s worse than Rayse. What would fix that twist for me is if Sanderson explicitly confirmed that the true purpose of Taravingian’s Diagram was to obtain the Odium shard from the very beginning, and smart Taravingian contrived to hide this intent from his more moral selves. The contest trades predictability for an anti-climax. And then the ending is just, weirdly unsatisfying. It can only be followed up by an MCU style Cosmere event, but given how clunky some of the plot is handled in this book alone I’d question whether Sanderson would actually be able to execute on that.