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

[Rulakir]

I hope it's not too late to leave my two cents here.

Not at all, in fact, I've seen more people recently say since they've had time to digest the story they see the flaws in it and we may see more of that once NG+ is added.

Second only in body count to Hermes. She allows my friends to die, allows one to suffer for millennia and bloody his hands, she kills my original self. She’s unforgivable and I’m glad she can never return. She doesn’t deserve to.

I honestly don't understand why more people don't have a problem with this, but I also view the sundering as a violent act and for my Azem it would have been non-consensual. Her being permanently gone is a small karmic justice. I'm still in disbelief that they turned an antagonist to the Ancients into a heroine. I wonder if Ishikawa will ever do any interviews addressing this.

certainly would explain my own WoL nodding and smiling with blank stares and hardly being given a variety of dialogue choices.

I figured we wouldn't be tempered because people would feel like their WoL was robbed of free will (despite that having always been the case), but EW reverted back to ARR levels of a lobotomized WoL. It reminded me of Minfilia. I hated her character, but all the NPCs loved her and my WoL could only ever express love for her. Same thing with Venat.

It's mostly the whole revival scheme that always struck me as a bit outlandish given how adamant the story/lore has been about resurrection being impossible.

I had the same reservations, but after they made it clear the souls were trapped within Zodiark I felt the plan had more validity. Given a core part of their culture was that they return to the star, those who selflessly sacrificed themselves were being denied that and they needed to be released.