Editorial context
The route is a pace decision.
The Romantic Road should not start as a decorative town list. The stronger frame is whether the reader wants a moving north-to-south trip, which walled towns earn an overnight, and enough time to avoid turning every day into a transfer.
That rhythm is why the route works as a focused guide. It has a clear job: help the reader decide whether a walled-town route is actually the shape they want.
The towns are not interchangeable.
Wurzburg, Rothenburg, Dinkelsbuhl, Nordlingen, Augsburg, and Fussen each ask for a different amount of time. Some deserve an overnight; others are better as a stop between bases.
The Romantic Road guide handles that first layer of depth. Premier Germany should route the country-level comparison there instead of duplicating the town-by-town planning promise.
Neuschwanstein sits at the end.
The southern end around Fussen and Neuschwanstein is a sequencing question, not just a photo stop. It should not collapse the whole route into one castle expectation.
The route guide handles that timing. Premier Germany should explain why the Romantic Road belongs in the choice, then send the detail there instead of widening into generic Bavaria copy.