When I was a kid, back in the day, I read up to book 6 of The Wheel of Time. It seemed that after book 3 the series went into an exponential decay of quality...and I couldn't handle the flat female characters and I ditched in book 6. Well, turns out that he's churned out 11 books total. A friend of mine once joked about "Egwene's Paradox," which was a variant of Zeno's Paradox. Basically, one of the main characters (Egwene) had a destination, and as she proceeded her velocity dropped in every single book so that she would never reach the terminus. Well, I hear she did reach her goal, though I also read one book followed only one day!
Anyway, so the main point here is that Jordan was diagnosed with a heart condition. The median life expectancy is 4 years. He's working on the concluding book to his saga. Who would have thought it ended like this?
Matters of sympathy aside, my question is will this rush make the end of the story better or worse?