I would have loved a full AU episode! I really wanted to see what Root would have been like as Ms. Groves, though, lbr, she would have been Samaritan's primary asset, not Greer.

But, yeah, I was rewatching S5 recently and I really felt like up until 5x8 or 5x9 they were anticipating getting a back nine order, then didn't get it and were left with less time and money than they'd been expecting to try and wrap everything up.