>>52740351Yeah, I'm scared of this happening too
However, I still have high hopes for the DLC. The DLCs in SwSh were not connected in any way to the main game but that's only because the main story was so shit that there's no hope of salvaging it.
We still have a ton of unexplained mysteries that the DLC could shine upon: the Virizion/Suicune sketch, OP's pic, the mysterious symbols in Iron Valiant/Roaring Moon's cave, the unexplorable land beyond Eri's base, the imagination theory, etc. If the DLC doesn't focus on these, then I don't know why GF would leave us is such a cliffhanger that we just speculated theories for nothing.