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

[Lauront]

I think what ticks most people off about the lore is the bad faith stuff that's talked about in the lore thread. There's not so much lore discussion going on as "I don't like this part of the game, it's bad writing, I don't know what the devs were thinking or how anyone can like this story! This character is undoubtedly the most evil villain in any FF games ever!" If someone doesn't enjoy the story, that's fine, but acting like the story is objectively bad (when story enjoyment is a subjective thing), and that people who do like it or certain characters are somehow dumb for doing so, is going to get people riled.

People who defend the story do this as well. Let's not pretend it's one-sided. I personally don't care overly much if some people get riled. It is simply the nature of such things. But equally I'm not too interested in being lectured by them, either. The ignore function exists for a reason, where I feel there's really no productive use being made of my time by engaging the person. The story was acknowledged to be even more morally grey than SHB by Yoshi P in the lead up to EW, and there are lots of aspects of it that are also "grey" in the sense of ambiguities or uncertainties or what-ifs cropping up with some parts of the lore. This is the sort of thing that will spawn disagreement.