Too many new storylines open in aFfC & aDwD. How many PoVs in tWoW?

[Seneschal]

I see two possibilities:

1)

• Dany will decide not to return to Mereen, and we will never discover what happens to Barristan, Tyrion and Victarion
  
• Areo Hotah marries his axe and absonds to some foreign land, never to be heard from again
  
• Jon dies and Melisandre commits suicide out of grief - this is the blood sacrifice needed to stave off the others, thus eliminating that aspect of the plot
  
• Bran overcommits to becoming a greenseer and becomes an actual tree, losing all consciousness
  
• The bear lady falls on Asha, crushing her to death
  
• Samwell ends up being an incompetent maester, and spends several years trying to get his chain, in the process missing out entirely on the next two books
  
• With only a handful of characters remaining, GRRM wraps up the series in two 200 page novels
  

2)

• Martin goes in the opposite direction: instead of trimming down POVs, he increases the number substantially.
  
• Hodor is promoted to POV character (hodors gonna hodor)
  
• A hitherto unknown continent to the South suddenly is discovered, with a whole new cast of eclectic nobles and smallfolk who have designs upon the iron throne
  
• Ned, Rhaegar, Robert, Benjen, Robb and Viserys all turn out to be alive and in completely different places; they have to find their way back to Westeros in order to further upset the political situation
  
• The others are actually real people, and so a dozen of them now require povs
  
• Dany's dragons develop the ability to speak and turn out to be of the wisecracking variety - at least on the outside! POVs added to them to reveal that though they may be sunny and happy towards others, beneath their scaly veneer they hide twisted and vengeful goals
  
• GRRM wraps up the series in nine 1500 page novels, at the end of which all the characters are ever so slightly closer to achieving their goals