I love Dark Souls. I love the lore of Dark Souls. But to say they are heavily story driven is false. They’re literally built around the game, and then the story is shaped around the gameplay. They’ve said this themselves many times. In that sense, it wouldn’t be that difficult to continuously add fun game content and then write some small story shit to make it fit in the existing lore.
Not that I necessarily want this. I’m just saying From, at least, could pull it off considering they already operate in a way that doesn’t impact it like actual story-driven titles.