Endwalker is a masterpiece

[Ririta]

Sorry to hear, mate. I loved the story exactly because of what you describe.

It seems you were expecting something very predictable. Which is not what FF14 has been about since 3.0.

Personally I was at the edge of my seat until the very end, not knowing what to expect - and I love how they tied all the threads together.

There's a line where unpredicable just becomes random. Introducing random things last moment into a story is the easiest thing to do, and one that FFXIV pretty much never did.

All of the previous expansions big bads had been properly developed, some even introduced before the expansion was even released. All of them were reasonably predicable and made perfect sense both in their logic and in their motivations.