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

[Lauront]

It's basically not really been explained in any depth, because in SHB it's precipitated by the subterranean sound, which is what is described as first hijacking control over their creation magicks, before their dread impulses are let loose.

Have you not heard? Though yet confined to the lands across the sea, a terrible phenomenon afflicts our star. They are calling it the “Final Days.”
'Tis said it starts suddenly, a cacophonous keening from beneath the earth. The sound distorts all living things within earshot, and wrests from us control of our creation magicks.
Once that happens, all is lost. Fear, pain, despair...every dread impulse is siphoned from our minds and given substance: an eternal fall of fiery rain; an incessant spawning of nightmarish beasts...
None can point to the source of the phenomenon. 'Tis as if the star itself has fallen ill─as if a force inimical to life now festers and spreads.
'Tis only a matter of time until Amaurot, too, resounds to that discordant squall. You should stay with your loved ones, child... Stay with them...

The Watcher reaffirms that this cry is what precipitates it.



Unless they're planning on re-visiting this later, I suspect they're hoping we just roll with it and don't read into it too deeply.

[Fiel_Tana]

Ah thank you for that! I had a vague memory of that scene but couldn't remember the exact details or find my screenshot.

[PawPaw]

don't read into it too deeply.

Oh, I do hope this becomes the new tagline for the game.