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

[Teraq]

Pretty much the same. While I'm glad they developed Emet/Elidibus/soon Lahabrea/Mitron/Loghrif/Fandanny, it kind of miffed me that Emet-Selch became 'the' only Ascian that mattered, and we never saw the group dynamic ever again. I suppose 13 was just too ambitious a number.

I was almost going to mention that my personal unpopular opinion about Ascians is that as soon as Emet-Selch entered the stage, the Ascian plot became the Emet-Selch plot. I'm thankful for getting my little crumb of Eli, but... yeah... I mean no disrespect to Emet, he's a fantastic character. But. You know?

I was talking about ARR/HW/SB so I didn't mention Mitron and Loghrif, but you should have seen my face during the Elpis aether current quest tbh. I will be FOREVER thankful that whoever wrote the Eden storyline actually had Gaia empathise with him...her?..them. I can't emphasise enough how much I love that their final dialogue was so soft and amiable, and I'm not typically a shipper.