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

[Rulakir]

There's an interview with Yoshi-P, Ishikawa, and Oda in the next issue of Famitsu magazine. No translation that I know of yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...e_50page_ff14/

[Kyohei]

It's not released yet, the link to pre-order that someone posted says it'll be on the 17th.

It is also something that works better when planned from the very beginning not years after much of the story has been told as is the usual case in games.

Indeed.