I felt that too about the last season watching it through the first time . On a rewatch I was more forgiving . I kind of appreciated them putting limits on themselves to force themselves to be creative . But it did feel a bit too much of that damn wedding and hotel . Maybe half a season would have been good and then they could have had half a season to play things out more rather than that insanely compressed final ep . But in that final season I kind of liked that feeling of everyone coming in from different directions Marshall in the taxi , the mother , robins mother , Barney ' s mother etc for a big final collision . You even saw the future colliding with the present in a really clever way with future Ted and Mother often being in the same place and as current Ted . On a rewatch I actually enjoyed the final season even if it could have been a bit better . But after so many seasons they are going to run out of inspiration a bit .