KOD in that it progressed the storyline at a good pace without chapters out of order, TOM in that TOR were willing to give an extra 100 odd pages to 'play with'.

With a handful of extra chapters (which as noted TOM shows could have been used), TGS could have 'straightened' the timeline and had Perrin start moving out of Malden and Galad captured as a cliffhanger ending as part of TGS, instead of it being part of the TOM prologue.

Hopefully TOM returns to being closer to a structured timeline. It looks like we'll get Rand (and possibly Egwene) at the start screwing it, but hopefully after that we don't see either of them (and by relation the Seanchan) until near the end when Perrin and Mat have 'caught up'.