Bookfag here, I haven’t really followed up on this disaster but what’s the actual explanation?
My understanding is that GRRM gave D&D a bunch of dogshit unfinished notes and they ran with in S7 and then had pretty much total creative control over S8? Did GRRM do it as misdirection and WOW is going to be based and kino and return back to the quality of storm of swords?