Honestly, Inked is sorta interesting just in that I'm always curious about heavily stylized houses even if this is a concept we've seen in other things probably pushing dozens of times, if we have at least one room that's entirely painted like you stepped into a cartoon I think this justifies itself, even as a weird pseudo-spiritual sequel to the very old Toon Terrortory maze.
Unearthed on the other hand is just a headscratcher to me. If at some point it comes out that the entire concept was written by AI i wouldnt even be surprised, it feels less like "whats a unique hook for a haunt that fills an unfilled niche in our lineup" and more "we have nothing, ask chatgpt to come up with a haunt concept" and the best they could get was mummies.
It makes me really sad to say it but I'm feeling more and more like every year after 2023 we've had at least one new maze that feels like a significant step down from what came before. Widows is fine but Depths was classic and they should've had something equally distinct and iconic to follow it, Bloody Mary kinda just pales in comparison to Waxworks for the exact same reason, and now this year I feel like theres a chance Grimoire and Mesmer both end up being better than what we get thats new. Obviously that ignores the successful mazes those years I'm leaving out, but after a long string of bangers and now that Chilling Chambers and Origins are on the chopping block its easy to worry that we're seeing the golden age of the last 10 years or so of the event finally petering out.