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

[Skyborne]

I think she has poor taste if Hermes is her favorite character. Between Hermes' poorly developed metanoia at the end of Elpis, the utterly contrived "test of humanity" and time-reversal plot devices, the vague hand-waving of the continuity of his soul post-sundering, the overall lazy and unnecessary retconning of Amon into his backstory, and the general insufferability of Fandaniel--imo a poor example of how to write a flippant character, as far as mannerisms, dialogue, and plotting are concerned--I think he is possibly the worst character in the series. I understand what Hermes/Fandaniel was supposed to function as in the story--I think it was horribly handled.

I think she's overrated. As much as I enjoyed ShB as a self-contained side story, I think it stands out as the least necessary expansion to the Hydaelyn arc. And Endwalker felt too splayed and rushed conceptually, and in several ways just a retrod of ShB ideas. So I don't have much faith in her ability to plot a whole multi-expansion arc. I wish I could say otherwise because she seems like a very nice person and despite being largely superfluous ShB had some outstanding ideas. But if Hermes is her barometer of her writing style, I think it quite likely that I will not like the ideas she puts forth in the future.

This.
Guys... dying is sad, and I think we could treat these animals summoned from our own aether better. You want to judge them? Well, what if... they judged US? Huh? Huh? This says a lot about society. Are we... the baddies? Really makes you think about the meaning of life... oh, and FF3 funny clown theatre man because it's Yoshida's fave.

I do think planning out everything from the start, at least in a basic skeletal form, would benefit the next story though. It seemed obvious they were improvising things as they went along to an extent, though I've seen many who think that the writing team all planned everything out meticulously for the entire 10 years as if a writer looking at old things and going "Hmm, this will be useful" is something new. And as much as I liked parts of Shadowbringers for actually showing the antagonist's pov in a slightly more fair way than what we got in EW, it was also ground zero for all the "forge ahead!" "stand tall!" "better brighter tomorrow!" "hope hope hope!" nauseating and cloying preaching.

On top of that, it doesn't make me look forward to FF16 or its story much...

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I’ve liked Ishikawas work since Ysayle and Moenbryda so she’s got my support. Endwalker has only made me more a fan.

She wrote Ysayle? Never knew that. I liked her since she was flawed and more gritty and had an actual spine. Her "delusion" of being Shiva reborn was shattered, but her sincerity and conviction wound up winning over Hraesvelgr. The game also never gave me the impression of forcing me to love her. Horsefarts seemed to get most of the acclaim, though.