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I doubt it will be the last part, at least based on your reasoning. Parts 7 and 8 are not exactly "retellings" as you described. They are almost entirely original except that they borrow character elements and settings from previous parts. Steel Ball Run bears no similarity to Phantom Blood besides some character parallels and Jojolion (despite being based in Morioh) is also extremely different from Diamond is Unbreakable in terms of it's premise. This shows that Araki has not run out of ideas and he hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. The SBR timeline doesn't necessarily have to stop just because there are no more original timeline counterparts to draw from.