I thought this chapter was good, but yeah, you can really tell that Arakawa is rushing it (and that's saying something since she got 67 pages this month!) But I guess that's understandable since she has, at most, 3 chapters left to finish the series, since the anime ends in June.
So as of now they still have to defeat Father and Pride, answer all the alchemy-related mysteries, wrap everything up for the characters, which will include Ed and Al getting their bodies back (or not), the resolution of the Greed/Ling matter, and possibly the death of Hohenheim. And if we're lucky we'll get a "where are they now?" final chapter (c'mon Arakawa, ya gotta give us some Ed/Winry action at least).