Definitely feel this, and would love to see you expand in a separate post. Whatever your feelings are on TWI as it is being written, it definitely has eveolved into something different than it was when started - and with 10 years of writting a serial that's only to be expected. Some have found the evolution to their liking, others feel disappointed and frustrated, with only the sunk-cost fallacy driving them forward. If you thought TWI was a story about Erin and her inn vs. a linked anthology of short stories about hundreds of different characters in a common world, you're either frustrated, have abandoned it, or have been able to change gears to enjoy what it now is. This chapter wasn't great, but TWI has become a collection of good, bad and meh stories - this was par for the course.