I'm going to assume that the pressure to wrap up quickly was coming from the cast just as much, if not more than the showrunners. many of them are young and in their physical primes, and the effort they have to put into filming things like battle scenes (e.g. 55 days for just the Long Night) probably has made most of them eager to do something else. I bet if HBO announced that they were going 10 seasons, at least a few of them would have pulled a Constance Wu.
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