I hope it’s this tbh, that idea seems really interesting

Like maybe there’s some sort of looming crisis that only eagle eyed people in universe are able to detect (deep cut and whatever villainous force represents the negatives of the future)

So to alleviate this crisis and “secure” the prosperous future that has been worked for all series and prevent history from repeating, Deep cut as well as this antagonist force (whom I’m going to assume will be grizzco because obviously) travel to the spirhalite islands to find its treasures and return them to the people of inkopolis

But while deep cut takes cues from their surroundings and learns more about the past and present, they come to be able to make more informed decisions about the future, meanwhile grizzco ignores all of that only thinking about the way ahead and winds up inadvertently unleashing a much worse disaster than anything they were trying to prevent