There's this genre in literature called picaresque novel, prominent features of which are:
1. Everything that happens to the main protagonist is destined and predetermined.
2. There are higher forces at play, such as gods, rulers, power of nature etc.
3. These forces guide their protagonist through quite random and out of the pocket situations, which change rapidly throughout the story.
4. Concept of time is irrelevant and sometimes 600 pages make up the story of several days despite the fact that within this time protagonist may go through what normal people wouldn't be able to in their whole lives.

Endwalker checked the box on every of these for me and this is the problem. Picaresque novel is a fun silly thing, a relic of time packed with ridiculous stories, over the top characters, linear storytelling (meaning you already know the ending when you start reading), but never it tries to provide you with a deep narrative and it shouldn't. I really expected to get some serious writing packed with psychological and philosophical dilemmas, deep characters and meaningful story. Instead what I got was some poorly made anime from the 80s that doesn't take itself seriously. Well, if they're going this route then I suppose I'll just start skipping every msq dialogue entirely, because it's just not worth the time investment.