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

[Rulakir]

Square Enix has an "ethics" department. Just putting that out there.

Which is disturbing. I know Japanese culture is different than the west, but it's been mentioned a few times that after EW some players don't feel like they're ethically on the same page as the writers. That's a problem and something you'd think that department would've picked up on before production started.

Congratulations. You got a villainous Hydaelyn.
You got your Mommy Crystal Genocidaelyn. Your big evil angelic mommy milker crystal of sundering.

Was it worth it?

Except we didn't, not really. The game still presents her as a protagonist and Yoshi-P said they want to "communicate she's not a bad guy". The writers/devs themselves don't view her as villain and the game doesn't portray her as one either.

It’s like she’s been waiting for an chance to force people to her ideals and her ideals only. She just needed an excuse and the power to finally do it without direct consent of the rest of the world.

Given how ideologically divided the world has been the past two years it's amazing to me that this doesn't get called out more.

I can't say that I'm looking forward to the future patches anymore with the current writing and will take a break from XIV for a bit.

Same. It's particularly worrying that it's going to be a "conflict in values". First, I get enough of that in real life, thanks. Second, I don't trust the writers to handle the subject now after EW.