Thrond

I've said it before, but my issue with the idea of show focusing on more adventuring and worldbuilding is that none of the main characters have major goals or personal attachments outside of Manehattan, Canterlot, Cloudsdale, Ponyville and the Crystal Empire. The only way to get them out of those places without stories that have nothing to do with them would be a much longer story arc, and the show just doesn't want to serialise that much.