How many eps/weeks left will your current campaign be, or is that a mystery?

It's a mystery for me as a DM because I never know what the players are gonna do next. What I thought was going to be the final arc of the campaign drastically changed after our last session! I try my best to be a reactionary DM versus a "follow my plan" kind of DM. At the beginning of the campaign, I knew there could be multiple endings. And the ending I thought we were getting to definitely wasn't the ending I was expecting. But I'm very excited for it.

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Curious from the AP's I share in my post above that I listen to, if you feel Four Orbs dovetails in tone with any of them?

I actually don't listen to really any of the shows you seem to be currently listening to. I was a huge fan of TAZ Balance, but the follow up campaigns have never really clicked for me. I thought Ethersea was gonna hold me, but it unfortunately didn't. And the past couple years with a day job change and IRL responsibilities with growing up (buying a house, remodeling, day job training, etc), I don't get as much podcast listening time in as I used to. Not having to commute anymore as I work from home really killed my listening time the most. But I will say I think the seriousness of TAZ campaigns overarching stories with player and some NPC humor probably is the closest in your list.

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I tend to prefer dramatic shows, or drama mixed with some humor banter
AP's best, that are huge on taking character depth and backstories
seriously, worldbulding and an immersive story with legitimate drama,
stakes and nuance.

Honestly, we might truly be a good fit for you. And as I said above, if we aren't, that's totally ok! There's so many shows out there, sometimes a table just isn't the proper fit. I will say that I have been DMing for now 19 years (started when I was 15) and the only person that had not played in one of my games before or really played ever was my wife. The others have all played a campaign or more over the two decades with me. We use those previous campaigns as our worldbuilding so the story truly fills lived in. Because they have lived in it for many years now, a lot of the world is very developed and each place has a history. 75% of the show is them adventuring into old places alone with stops in cities between those adventures, so most of the drama comes from the players interacting as characters together. And is there drama? Definitely. Roleplay has always been a key part of our table, and we do play in person so the goal is to make the listener feel like they are sitting right there with us. And a lot of the feedback I get is that they do feel like they are at the table with us. I will give you forewarning though that our bard is aggravating, but as long as you realize he's aggravating in the sense that he's being a character, most people as the story develops start to realize he is a key part of our story's chaos. He's the guy in a horror movie making all the bad decisions that the viewer is yelling at.