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

[PawPaw]

I'm mostly hoping it's not being done strictly to flesh out characters post-mortem so we can feel worse about their fates

I'm positive that this is a major part of it. We'll get to know little Themis and that promise that he made but he couldnt remember who he made it to? That'll be us. And then we can feel even worse about killing an old friend in the future. Who knows what they'll do with Lahabrea but I'm sure they'll find a way to humanize him also.

[Brinne]

I'm positive that this is a major part of it. We'll get to know little Themis and that promise that he made but he couldnt remember who he made it to? That'll be us. And then we can feel even worse about killing an old friend in the future.

JUSTICE FOR THEMIS! >:O

Also, I can understand being careful about the angle of "why should we bother to help if it doesn't benefit us", especially for writers of a video game, anticipating that mindset being a factor in player responses to being asked to help in a conflict - but it rings a bit differently when the context is not "saving them also saves us" as in Shadowbringers, but with a group of people we ultimately choose to leave doomed to benefit us, lmao. Run from Azem's familiar, Themis! They speak naught but lies! Run!