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The Namazu thing was a joke - they changed everyone's avatars to some version of a Namazu for April Fool's.

Anyway, pertaining to the Echo, it's capable of doing much more than the Warrior of Light uses it for. The Ascians and Warriors of Darkness use it to cross dimensions and attain effective immortality, Fordola used it to achieve a combat state akin to Dragon Ball Super's Ultra Instinct, and Zenos used it to possess Shinryu. That said, the Warrior of Light has displayed none of these abilities or expressed the desire to obtain them. As it stands the Warrior of Light is just an exceptionally skilled and talented fighter who happens to be temper-proof - other than persistent superstitions about Echo users, the Eorzean city-states have no reason to fear the Warrior of Light or be jealous of their power. On the contrary, the Warrior of Light is repeatedly entrusted with the fate of nations and various characters (the Scions and GC leaders, f'ex) show guilt and remorse over asking them to shoulder such a heavy burden time and again.
No, the Echo has manifested itself more that just boosting our combat ability. We can see the pasts of those around us. I believe more than a few NPCs have hinted that should we put the effort in, we could control that. Also both Lahabrea and Igeyorhm implied we could tear open dimensions. The reason we see most telegraphs is due to the Echo. If you do the summoner questline, it's mentioned that we could control stronger egis and even primals, but it's too risky because we might lose control. To even BE a summoner you need the Echo (or very lucky) because you need to be around when a primal is defeated so that you absorb some of it's aether, which then allows you to make aetheric constructs of it and not just carbuncles.

Because of the way encounters work, there's little sense as to just how powerful the WoL truly is, but again, the NPCs tend to comment on how you're the most vicious fighter they've seen.