A Brighter Future for "Lost"?

I've been a big LOST fan since the show kicked off a couple of years ago. Aside from SportsCenter, it is the only show on TV that I watch with any regularity. However over the past season, I have grown increasingly frustrated with the growing complexity of the plot and the inability of any characters to ask the simple questions that would provide viewers with even a single answer to the hundreds of questions that have been raised. Up until this point, I've blamed the writers more often than not saying, "They have no clue what they're doing!!!". I still watch every week but the show is on the brink of losing me as a viewer.

Today, a friend forwarded me this article on CNN that tells us of the scheduled end of the show three seasons from now.

After a quick read, this got me thinking... not knowing how long the series would run must have made it extremely difficult for the writer's to put together a long term game plan. Imagine someone asking you to write a story such as this but you don't know if you have 16 or 80 episodes to tell it. Impossible. Hardly any writer would be cable of telling a story that would remain both interesting and believable the entire time.

In the article, the writers describe having an end point in sight as "incredibly liberating".

I hope this means we'll finally start seeing some answers and seeing the same level of quality presented in season 1.