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I honestly think he's probably been finished with WoW for a while now and already started on ADoS, but was waiting to put them out so he could go back and edit some things that lead up to his intended conclusions based on how people reacted to the show.

His updates don't really give me hope that he's going to do anything soon. I think there was one he just made saying that he's got tons of projects going on which, to me, is like saying: Shut up nerds, I'll do what I want when I want.

Which I think is reasonable. He's an older guy and with his weight there's no way he's going to last 5 - 10 more years unless he drastically changes his life. There are some people who said he was sitting on the book, and I think where I am is probably 50/50. One side saying he has finished it, it will be published soon (6 months to a year and a half) and that we might have a chance at the second book. The other side that says he got really mad at HBO and doesn't actually want to finish either of those books and would much rather coast on what he has and do things in which he has more creative freedom.

To the Conclusions: They're actually nice, and it's a weirdly sweet way to end the series but the way it got chopped up and streamlined (as you said) just makes it extremely unpalatable.

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I really think you're overplaying that way too much.

Let me put it this way: We really didn't see her training with the Faceless men and she didn't even complete her training. We just saw her gettin' cracked around by a stick and failing the one mission she was sent on. I think my biggest problem with it in general is that they also chopped this up in a way that it not only seems unreasonable, it just feels like "magic". The jump, the sneaking, the fighting like an expert with every weapon etc. etc..

Then there's the conflicting strength from episode to episode, not just for the NK but for the dragons/arbalests as well. What's to stop the NK from just crushing her neck before the blade drops? If he can detect, react and catch a Faceless assassin in midair, why does he just stare stupidly while having her by the neck? The entire scene needed to be completely rewritten, but I digress.

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"Bran the Fisher King".

Which, I think, would actually make sense if they had just taken the fricking time to develop this story. I have no problem with book Bran (assuming Martin will/would have fleshed him out) taking the Throne, but hoowee, show Bran is literally just so apathetic and...quite plainly, useless. He could have helped Dany, Jon, everyone, anyone, by providing recon or even just by spying but I think (this is my theory) that the writers were trying to downplay his access to the throne so it'd be like a "HHHHOOOMMMMMMGGGGGG" moment in Episode 6.

Most people were surprised for different reasons.

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Book vs. Show

I never read the books, almost all of my information from them is just by seeing people who actually had. If I had the books to fall on, it would have stung a lot less after all the time spent and reading up on theories here and there.

They did everyone a severe disservice by simply not allowing other people to take over the show and go on from there. I'm almost positive the entire cast would have stayed outside of maybe Lena.