If by "left murky" he means "lots of room for more novels" then yes.
You know there will be something about Matt going back to Seanchan. Rand's sons. Future of the Aiel. Lan becoming a king. Perrin becoming a king. Black tower moving forward. The Sharans that only showed up for the final battle - there is a whole back history that can be explored there.
And far as foreshadowing, the one that springs to mind is Egwene. When she was first discovering that she was a dreamer she had a few foretelling dreams (first since the age of dreams! How that plot point fizzled), one which was her being held and then able to attack her captors because they didn't realize that she hadn't taken the oaths. I remembered that and waiting through books and books - and nothing.
The whole story became way too vast, too many things were added, and even with 3 books to wrap things up it still didn't seem like things wound down until this final book; and even then it seemed rushed.
Some of the books in the series, mainly the first 3, are well paced. But there was so much padding and posturing that it felt to me like the weight of the story just became too much and it collapsed. I don't mind Sanderson's writing style but it wasn't his story and it showed.
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