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

[Silvarer]

I remember when I first got to the moon, I thought I was already at the end of the game. The way the game was advertised in addition to the events leading up to that point, I thought the moon and Zodiark were supposed to be the finale. Very confusing.

They were just using misdirection is all. Make us believe one thing in order to keep the real final area a secret until the end. I thought it was quite effective.

[KizuyaKatogami]

They were just using misdirection is all. Make us believe one thing in order to keep the real final area a secret until the end. I thought it was quite effective.

It’s not even really just misdirection though. Why continue hyping up the area for years(he has always teased it constantly), why advertise it all as some big area and then just release it being an area with honestly probably the least relevance in the expansion ironically. I guess you can call it subversion but, i think as many people will agree, subversion isn’t always good and sometimes “simple is best.” I can argue them completely dropping/contradicting plot points or ignoring them are misdirection/subversion. Are they good? Objectively no they aren’t.