I Mean your not wrong in saying that In the end we will meet Odin.
But we already have to a small extent.

I mean Very rarely He will spawn and stare at the player monitoring their progress killing the forsaken. its not much. i started to think that the dreams are like whats currently happening in midgard or other realms. One of the Rune stones say that the mountains are high enough
To "Hear the Battles in midgard or The Valkyries warping through worlds.
So does that mean that There is Actively a Massive war going on?
And that we died in it and got sent to valheim