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

[PawPaw]

Unsurprising in that regard, though I'm forever bewildered as to why people remain so attached to Haurchefant.

I agree this was quite surprising. Maybe it has something to do with shots/voice clips of him him being constantly shoved in our face accompanied by oh-so-sad music several times during EW? Otherwise, while I like Haurchefant for what he was back in HW I can't think of a reason to be that attached to him at this point. Much less for it to be so widespread that he'd reach Number 3 on a popularity poll in 2022.

My music tastes are apparently vastly different from other players. I dislike most of the top song choices, especially Answers.

Answers and Flow can both die in a fire but I'm OK with the rest. 'Neath Dark Waters is probably my favorite song in the game.