Endwalker was "meh" (for reasons other than technical issues)

[Rhysati]

This expansion, imo, is a mess. The pacing is all over the place and constantly undercuts any sort of tension or climax there is to be had. Just as "The Final Days" begin and it seems like the expansion is FINALLY going to move, it immediately does a 180 and goes back to escorting people around and hours of dialogue so we can see how the apocalypse is started ages ago. Great...I don't care. I care about the fact that people are currently dying and the end is nigh.

Then you have the nonsense of the space bunnies and moon spaceship that screamed Hitchhiker's. We also killed one of our Gods a few levels into the expansion because why pay off the entity we have been told is the 'evil' god that the 'good' one is locked forever in step with. And for some unknown reason NOBODY has the common sense to realize that killing one of the two that are in balance is probably a REALLY bad idea. Then we have storytime in the past to learn about how the ascians were bonkers insane and created a Terminator that is going to kill us all. Then we have a mass-effect style spaceship for some reason that is in complete defiance of everything the world knows about technology wise. It doesn't even look Allagan or Garlean. It looks like it's from an entirely different sci-fi universe.

And through all of this, all of the scions seem generally rather unbothered or unsurprised about pretty much any of it. I was sitting there for so much of this going: "Why does everyone seem so cool about all this? You just found out the moon is a spaceship filled with bunnies put there to save you from the apocalypse. How in any way is this something you all aren't absolutely shaken by? Your entire LIVES have been a lie in the grand scheme of things!

The story is like playing through a Kojima fever dream. And it's not even remotely up to par considering the expansions that came before it. I don't know why they felt the need to rush everything and try to close every plothole they could in rapid succession, but it is terribly executed.

With that said, I'm very happy for anyone that truly enjoys this xpac and it's story. I really wish I did as well considering how much I liked the previous one.