MSQ

[Arkevorkhat]

You're free to dislike the story, but criticizing one element of the story that helps with cohesion just because it forces you to do a content that you don't like makes me wander what your actual complaint is when you say the writers are not writing a cohesive narrative?

Because frankly, there were hundreds of different ways we could have dealt with this, and as always, the writers chose the laziest, least compelling way possible.

FF14's story has basically no consequences, I could count on my hands the number of major characters, hero or villain, who have either A: Died permanently, or B: Had an actual, non-plot twist driving change of allegiance.

Y'shtola "Died" like 4 times. Zenos has "Died" like twice now, Asahi died and came back to life, The only actual permanent deaths I can think of are Moenbryda, Papalymo, Ilberd, and Valens, and Valens is a side character.

Not listing Ascians because it is all but confirmed that they're going to be, well, I'd say important, but nothing in this universe really qualifies when there are zero consequences for anything that happens in the story, in either the Endwalker MSQ or the Pandaemonium raid series.