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

[Misplaced_Marbles]

And that's a good question, assuming the Scions won't be with us (except for maybe G'raha?)

I'm gonna be honest, I'd rather take all the same old faces with me again as long as that meant G'raha stays behind. Such egregious devolution I have never seen before. Instead of progressing with the character, they just doubled down on the worst parts. People may use "cringe" a little too often, but when one completely naturally does that when watching the same old wacky hijinks, I don't know what else I could say.

[Theodric]

I'm gonna be honest, I'd rather take all the same old faces with me again as long as that meant G'raha stays behind. Such egregious devolution I have never seen before. Instead of progressing with the character, they just doubled down on the worst parts. People may use "cringe" a little too often, but when one completely naturally does that when watching the same old wacky hijinks, I don't know what else I could say.

Yeah, it's pretty weird. Such characters work best when they're based around consent. If someone doesn't like Haurchefant or G'raha then having them fawn over their character at every possible turn becomes jarring and questionable. Most RPG's have the decency to give the player the opportunity to tell such characters to back off - yet we never get such a luxury in FFXIV.

Which, in itself, seems to be a major issue with the game's writing lately. It assumes that you like X, Y and Z and dislike A, B and C. Yet any reasonable person would come to the conclusion that personal tastes vary and certain characters can very quickly overstay their welcome if they're near constantly front and centre in the narrative.

That's probably why Heavensward was so loved - not only did it give us a break from the Scions for the most part, it was a largely coherent and self contained experience. It introduced new characters and allowed them to have their fair share of time in the spotlight and grow as characters.