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

[Lauront]

Bravo. I read every word and I pretty much had the same observations throughout my play through of the msq during early access. For a while I was very disappointed and felt like I had nowhere to vent until I saw the threads popping up about it. It felt good to get it all of of my chest.

Now I feel like I’m finally ready to move on so I didn’t renew my sub. I just got an email today reminding me that my sub ends tomorrow lol. I feel like I stick around the forums now for entertainment cause there is definitely some hilarious drama that happens sometimes.

I'm waiting to see how the short stories/interviews wrap up stuff before making a decision, in all honesty. If I don't like the future direction at all, I may do the same, or just ignore the story, depending on how bad it was. Same if Pandaemonium turns into "ancients bad" nonsense - yeah, no thanks. The MMO market may be slim pickings at the moment, but I'm not desperate for one and there's alternatives even if imperfect.

So essentially what we've gleamed from this thread is

Truly. At least the Minstrel's words for Hades, Elidibus and Zodiark (and by implication, the ancients) acknowledges their huge sacrifices. I don't have an issue with Venat getting some of the credit. I do take great exception to their legacy though being just that of these mustache twirlers who, for "no reason", just decided they want to sacrifice all the worlds to their dark god, when in reality that's abject nonsense and they have now sacrificed their world for the sake of the sundered, while she's remembered as the supreme "hero is" deity. Y'shtola is committed to chronicling the tale of the ancients - let's hope she puts all that in.

Elidibus is probably my second favorite character in the entire game so believe me when i tell you i relate to what you said so much. Both him and Zodiark got absolutely shafted in favor of other characters and it shows. He’s been built up since the beginning of the game and he only gets 2 patches to really shine and then gets a 5 minute cameo before sacrificing himself to save us which is also just never ever even brought up. He’s never shown again after that. Isn’t given a scene in the credits or on Ultima Thule. It’s just Emet Emet Emet. You can tell just how much the writers pander to the community honestly. We saw it first with Graha and now Emet and don’t get me wrong, i love Emet, but it’s like they completely ripped Elidibus’ role and presence away from him and gave it to Emet and Elidibus was just written off despite being the other heart in the saga of the two elder primals. Just so disappointing what they did with him and i’ll say it, imo it was an incredibly bad writing decision.

I have mixed feelings about 5.3. On the one hand, I like how they essentially mirrored a WoL in him, with how he's willing to endure any pain and suffering, even to the loss of his identity, to bring his duty to completion. I think Elidibus is by far one of the most heroic personas in the story, alongside Hades, in how they would both labour for 12k years, in near complete desolation, playing the role of villain as necessary, to rectify what they saw as a great injustice done to their kind. However, I was somewhat let down by how they concluded his focus on the balance of dark and light and jettisoned him from his more conciliatory Emissary stance, which as you say went to Emet.