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

[Rulakir]

I've never understood humanity's obsession with life. I don't believe ending one's life has to be justified. As far as I'm concerned, it's none of anyone's business outside of family under certain circumstances. I understand others don't feel the same, but we're talking about a culture that didn't have a stigma about it. I sure as Hell wouldn't want to live forever. Even if I had a perfect life, at some point I'd just get tired with continued existence. Their souls were eternal and would be reborn, so it's not as if they were permanently gone - at least until they were sundered.

The ancients were kind of a mistake to me as they just superseded everything else in being interesting.

*sigh* Same. I've been struggling to think of anything in 6.1-7.0 that would be a hook for me at this point. I'm rather disappointed they decided to be done with the most interesting storyline the game's had since 3.3. It wasn't a 10-year arc either, it really only started in ShB so it feels abruptly cut short for seemingly no good reason.