What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Millybonk]

What I get from this is I like Endwalker for the same reasons you dislike it. I can see it being a polarizing expansion.

I think where we can find common ground is what comes next: we're simply an adventurer again. We've done the crazy stuff, and it's time to just explore.

I still love exploring the ARR zones, too! Definitely give Thav another chance, though; I've found places in both Radz and the "proper" Thav I completely missed my initial time through!

Calling the lackluster story in EW to be "polarizing" is nothing but a sleight of hand: you either acknowledge all those illogical plot developments, character decisions, pacing issues etc. that are IN-YOUR-FACE if you actually paid a tiny bit of attention and actually questioned them if they makes sense given what you know about the story up until EW, the character backgrounds, the Elpis section etc. - or you fail to notice them/willfully omit them to be able to pretend that the story of EW isn't that bad right after ShB.