They also seem to not wanna get too ahead of that geezer that writes the books. Id suggest to go w/o dude. He's too slow. The show has to be bigger than the books at this point. I dont even read fictionWould be good to take a year, to follow up with your plan, and then run 13 more episodes when everyone is fresh. They claim the turnaround times are high as hell. Do a Soprano break, and end it hard. They likely have enough material to go another 3-4 seasons.
The story is just a big plane that hasn't taken off yet, but eating up a lot of strip quickly. At this point, I don't see Daenerys getting to King's Landing in 23 episodes.