I just seems weird that after all this talk it is just Josh and Ginny who are going. They haven’t had a storyline since Season 3. To me, the loss of just them does not seem like a big shake up. It also doesn’t feel like an end of the story they have been writing for the last six years. That seems like the end of Emma. Who knows though, like always, the disclaimer is the writers are terrible and they don’t know what their own arcs are and they don’t know what happens on their own show and this is an external issue aka the actors want out effecting the show.
It is hard because the arc that was began in Season 1 is not the arc that exists now on Ouat, so they are not finishing what they started because they quit writing it three years ago. I think anyone could go and anyone could stay. I think Ginny and Josh seem really out. I think Jennifer wants off, but might have agreed to do one more. I think Robert wants off, but it’s a job and it’s money and his kids live here now. I think Lana is doing promotion a lot and that might mean something. Who knows.