Every time I see someone try to predict the plotlines for Winds, it always come across as so unoriginal. It’s just them checking off boxes of what they think needs to happen to set up Dream and the confrontation with the Others, with everyone positioned in Westeros.
This video from Quinn was probably my most recent encounter with that:
>https://youtu.be/eZu39i09pOU?si=mI_WAQVk5rjeV8OV
Just him listing him off straight-forward arcs for the different POVs, no originality whatsoever. Just him caving to the most popular theories (FAegon takes KL, Arya returns to Westeros, etc.) and bowing to the “needs” of the story every time, in that all the POVs need to be in their places for the climax.

That sort of theorizing for Winds always strikes me as so antithetical to the way GRRM actually writes. His POVs don’t “obey” the needs of the story most of the time, which to be fair is why he’s in this mess now as every storyline gets more and more convoluted. But the upside is that you’re treated to these massive surprises to catch you off-guard, like Stannis arriving at the Wall (which I don’t think anyone could’ve predicted after reading Clash, the way people are trying to predict Winds now).
I guess my point is that if Winds were to unfurl the way these youtubers are theorizing, it would be the most straight-forward, boring book yet. Just every POV obeying to the needs of the story, without any distractions along the way. Dany racing to Westeros because she knows she’s in a book and the climax is nearing, Jon defeating the Boltons because he knows he needs to tie off every WO5K plotline, etc.

Get me?