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

[Lauront]

And please, enough with the "we pay" point. We already had too many of these during the difficult launch. Childish attitude.

Don't see how it's childish. You are paying for a product in the end with certain expectations of quality in mind. Some of us here don't think the expansion met it and are discussing how it factors into whether (or how) we continue to play the game, where it goes from here etc. You're perfectly welcome to go to a thread praising the game, or even make one.