Thank you for the long and thought out reply! It is genuinely appreciated.

"it simply stated that there would be no after-talk for the event." I think you missed the entire second half of the tweet I quoted. "There will be no after-talk for this event. The after-talk will be held after the next Nightcord event."
This is saying that the after talk is being merged with the next after talk. It's effectively going to be one giant one to tackle both the climax and the resolution. I don't really know how to tell you this any other way Anon but the event just kind of ends there right after the big moment (understandably so). I apologize that this is pretty difficult to explain.

"the intimacy of the secret died the moment Kanade and Mafuyu died the minute were informed from Mizuki that she would be talking to them about her secret at a later date."
This is just not exactly true and you extended Mizuki's statement to include more than it really does. The intimacy of it is still there when the only thing Kanade and Mafuyu know is that "Mizuki would like to talk to them at some point and will contact them when she's ready" Why? They don't know. About what? They don't know. There is still an intimacy in that the only person who knows what's going on and that Mizuki is hiding a secret is... Ena.

It was a little too long to quote any part in specific, so I'll just be addressing it all at once, but I don't disagree at all with finding solace in the four of each other being what Niigo is about. I agree with that. I don't know why you'd assume otherwise of me when I have never stated anything of the sort. I still think expecting this specific "issue" to go into a longer extended arc is shooting yourself in the foot. My tweets were primarily aimed at the folk who I've seen think this plotline will not get any resolution whatsoever for an incredibly long time and Mizuki will stay absent and will take up the entire next year of Project Sekai's content. In fact, I've seen people write that this would take up the next 6 events which would extend long past the next year either. Which to me is flat out insanity. Unless that's you, in which case, yeah, target audience I guess. This game is going to keep moving forward whether we like it or not.

I've trimmed down a few parts of my own post because I'm just not really replying well but what I'm getting at with immersion is that they cannot host the Colorful Live if Mizuki is just MIA and depressed 24/7 lol. If they do it in character with the current depressed Mizuki, it creates an awkward vibe and doesn't make sense for Mizuki to just be dancing around with Niigo like that during this period (and FYI, the lives do feature in character content...) and if they do it OOC, it's going to also create an uncomfortable vibe and break immersion in regards to "current events" (not sure the right terminology.) Fan reception is soooooooo extremely important to these type of games.

"if everything went back to normal and mizuena's conflicts were resolved, where would the story go for them?"
shrug emoji. That's up for Clpl to decide, really. There's a billion different routes this game could go after this event, and there's technically a billion different routes for what next event does too. My PERSONAL guess, is that next event is going to resolve Mizuki/Ena specifically, and a future Mizuki event at a point in the distant future will resolve anything further with Mizuki/Kanade+Mafuyu.

I did read that thread before you sent me this even, and I even consulted friends for differing viewpoints. I think OP took it too personally. I don't think it makes me a "killjoy" to point out that people have blown this up much too far and expectations are ballooned beyond any sort of reason. If you disagree with that sentence specifically, I have nothing else to really say. Sorry we don't see eye to eye.

Being honest, your harsh tone seriously throws me off. I've been working on a response for about two hours flat without doing anything else in the mean time, and I genuinely mean that I found it rather uncomfortable to reply to and I'm not going to hold a further conversation at this time for the sake of my own boundaries. I hope you will understand. Let's be respectful to one another, OK?
However, I would still like to see you during November 30th, at any rate. I did think this was an insightful perspective and I don't regret responding. Let's see how wrong I am or how wrong you are.

I'm also not the best with words or explaining myself either, so I understand Anon. Don't worry about it. I empathize with feelings of frustration about how plotlines are going too. Unfortunately I'm a WxS fan LMFAO.

I wouldn't say Mizuki's arc in it's entirety would be "wrapped up" tbqh but I think the Mizuki+Ena secret portion of it would be pretty much resolved. Which is what is bothering Mizuki right now specifically, so I think having Mizuki back to relative normal after a direct confrontation with Ena isn't actually all that farfetch'd.
As for Mizuki's arc going forward, think of it like how Mafuyu's story didn't just end after she directly confronted her mother. There are still things that the game can tackle in the future. Mafuyu5 is one of my favorite events in the game and it shows there is still plenty they can do with her story with how reconnecting with her father has given her a greater security in the future. The same would apply for Mizuki.
There is a lot they can do with Mizuki, since the question of coming out to Kanade and Mafuyu is most likely not being answered yet either. THAT would be too much resolution in one event and it would take away from Ena, I think. Mizuki6 could do that in the distant future (probably after Kana5/Mfy6 handle some other stuff), and maybe it could introduce a new plotline neither of us could have even considered, too. We don't know, really.
It could be really interesting to see Kanade have something after-the-fact like you wrote down because it'd be thought-provoking for her. I could see something similar to this happening if that's the direction they want to take the story. Personally, I'm leaning onto something more related to her own future or her father though as a direct continuation of Kanade4, but your idea is still good. I like that.

I didn't say they would be completely uninvolved but the ideas I've been seeing float around is that "next is Kanade5 and then we get Ena and Mafuyu events about this" which I think is setting yourself up for disappointment. This is nothing like the Mafuyu arc and if anything.. (gestures at the first year of the game) that was the actual Mizuki arc with a year of buildup. Ena's Picnic event is centered around her bond with Mizuki and desire to reach out, Mizuki's heavy involvement in Carnation, the final scraps of buildup in Mirage of Lights and the end with the zinger that is Footprints. Doesn't that sound familiar to you...?
Kanade and Mafuyu will certainly play some sort of role as do most characters in most events, but it will almost definitely not be anywhere to this level of how personal Mafuyu's arc went and it will probably be more with Ena than it is with Mizuki. That is what I am trying to say. The game even cracks a joke on the player about how Kanade and Mafuyu are unaware of what is going on (there is an area conversation between the two that is just them lightheartedly talking about the festival and how they hope Ena and Mizuki are having fun. It's framed in a specific way that hurts to read as they don't know what we know).

As for Mizuki's friends at Kamikou--well, the problem is, Mizuki is infamously known for skipping class. Toya and Akito will probably not even bat an eye to Mizuki's absence. An has a similar deal in that while she's closer to Mizuki, she also knows Mizuki is a terminal class skipper... that, and the two are in separate classes now and the writing team just weirdly never wants to acknowledge them. They have by far some of the least outward content of any Y1 classmates and it took them until the very last event before the age-up to even give them a class event together. One of my biggest gripes tbh.
I do very much agree Rui will have some sort of content with Mizuki--a side story at minimum, AFTER Mizuki and Ena work things out together feels extremely realistic. Maybe even this next Niigo event. I am hoping to see this, personally! It makes a lot of sense Rui would have a follow-up considering as you said, he knows Mizuki's intentions.

I'm not actually a particularly big shipper. You can see that I do not list anything in my carrd, because it's not really that important to me. So, I'm not saying this because of desiring "ship content" or a bias in that sense. I care about the narrative of the story as someone who reads pretty much every nugget of content from events to menu lines to area convos to side stories to interviews the developers have offered, and have been interested in the game for around 3.5 years now. I think writing people you disagree with off as "shippers who ONLY want content to themself" is weird and says more about the type of person you are, honestly. I notice this happens a lot to Mizuki and Ena in particular, which is interesting. Why do people hate the idea that they have a specific bond and narrative unique to them so much?

Anyways, I'd love to talk to you again on November 30th, Anon. I think it could be nice to see how our predictions pan out. Will I be wrong? Will you be wrong? Who knows.