What makes no sense is that, in the quest description, it implies that you actually have a CHOICE:
Cross the northern bridge
(or)
Go through Smuggler’s Pass.
So when you do try and cross the bridge, of course you find out it’s destroyed and what not, but then later on there’s no option to even rebuild the darn thing.
If the original intent was to give the player the feeling that an alternate route was at least possible, why then go through the trouble of setting up the dialogue to tell the player “Sorry, sucka! Get your piggly ass through that Smuggler’s Pass! No bridge for you!”
Why not just word the quest where the player (Assume brand new and doesn’t know about the bridge yet) is told that there IS only one route now, that the northern bridge is perma-destroyed, and we need to head to the Pass, without having to hoof it to the bridge in the first place?
Just feels like a troll to me.