User blog comment:Wikiwalker11291/Continuation of SAO - Beyond Alicization and Other Storylines/@comment-3551173-20160811014726

Well as we march forward past Alicization there will need to be a goal. I doubt that retconning or canonizing for the sake of game characters will be done, instead it will be going forward hopefully with Kirito and Asuna's relationship (it's shipped and done) so  the only way is forwards, most likely it will deal with some facet of VRMMO and the human condition as is the theme of SAO series. I could list the themes of each Arc, so the new Arc will draw out a new one, despite what everyone else says this is what makes SAO brilliant and sets it aside from the generic harem series.