Bravo, excellently stated. I agree with everything you said, DomA. All of this really makes me doubt Harriet's competence. If she really had the best interests of her husband's story in mind, she should have protected its literary integrity - and the actual, expressed intentions of her husband - in a much better way. As for Sanderson, I am really quite pissed that he would even suggest such a gamble, restructuring someone else's story (someone, even, that he has admitted is much more intelligent than himself) at a point where he has not got all the pieces of the story ready. Taking chances should be the farthest thing from his mind when taking on a project such as this.

As for the rest of Team Jordan, I have completely lost faith in them, as well. In addition to the continuity errors they have greenlighted ("After the Taint", perhaps first and foremost, what the hell?), they have allowed much of the ending to become mundane, standard Fantasy. Witness the ridiculous story about "Sleete" related by Gawyn in TGS. I myself have little interest in reading Fantasy, and have followed RJ because of the qualities that set him apart from the likes of Brooks, Eddings, Feist - and yes, Sanderson.

To me, RJ was a storyteller who just had so many ideas, experiences, concepts and stories in his head that Fantasy was the only genre that could encompass them all. Sanderson just seems like a kid who thinks Fantasy is "cool" and wants to write it himself.