[2022] I wrote a better backbone to the new quest several months ago.

I can see the cinematic appeal of the scene you've described, but there are a few reasons we didn't go in a direction like this:

1) We want to de-escalate, rather than escalate, the storyline. Some fantasy settings seem to feel that the only way to follow a threat is with an even larger, more dangerous threat with even bigger stakes, but personally I think this is a mistake.

2) The scene and resolution as depicted isn't something we are really able to depict in our game, at a technical or logical level.

3) Perhaps most importantly, the scene doesn't give any agency to the player character. While some might argue with some accuracy that the same is true of our 2D cutscenes, typically those cutscenes are small moments within a larger quest in which the player has either personally brought about about the events depicted, or played a key role in responding to them.