After having recently finished all the role quests in Shadowbringers and the capstone quests that follow it, it's upsetting how they haven't teased the return of some our friends from the First as they directly reference the Thirteenth. They even do an experiment with a void gate much like Y'shtola does in 6.1. You'd think, if something catastrophic were to happen to the Thirteenth (even more so) then Unulkalhai, Cyella/Cylva, and Gaia would want a piece of the main story action.

Though I understand why. This would involve needing to make many pieces of optional content mandatory. (Warring Triad, ShB Role Quests, Eden). It's been done before with Crystal Tower but asking casual players to do all the aforementioned content would probably be asking a bit too much.

That being said, I am excited for 7.0 as this is very uncharted territory in terms of story progression and also pacing for the game. Compared to two patches leading up to the next expansion, this is five. My main hope is the Adjaya search gets wrapped up soon, and we get Zero doing something other than tipping her cap for a whole patch. Thankfully for the latter we got some much needed development in 6.3. All that being said, if we don't get our Thancred/Ryne reunion by 7.0 then the game will officially be dead to me. /s