I love what they did in the ending, I think it can be considered as a "fan service". Similar to CS2 they dragged this a lot by side missions and exploring. I just don't like the part where the other part of erebonia is just non existent. I understand they can't put all of it in the game but like, they made a huge world and they only focused on some parts of it at the end. and conveniently everything important happens on the part of erebonia available in the game.