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

[Sicno]

As an aside, the latest seasonal event made me realise that there really isn't much in the way of suspense left in the game these days. The premise of the event in question is a fashion show and I had a strong hunch that our character would win and that's exactly what happened.

Does anyone else find it boring? I don't play narrative heavy games to have my ego stroked so the idea that the player character succeeds at almost every task - be it major or minor - simply doesn't do anything for me. Even indirect aid provided by the player character usually results in victory for the NPC in question. Which, again, feels boring to me. We don't see or experience much in the way of a struggle on any meaningful capacity it seems. Which is ironic given the supposed 'themes'.

I see I'm not the only one who's making the event last minute :P

After being engaged in this thread for so long it was very funny because one of the options to say is literally "I had a hunch I would win".

And I feel like for this event there was a chunk that was cut off in the middle. Like we went from the introduction to the contest and auto-winning, without any sort of "conflict" in-between to be solved. There weren't even other contestants presented! It feels really off.

It's also off that Redolent Masked Rose is impressed by "quite the unconventional combination", which in the case of the "princess" option is just a standard Ishgardian ballroom dress which has been in the game for soooo long and even involved in WVR quests, and always presented as a 1-piece dress (despite the jacket). What "combination"? And no idea what's "unconventional" about the seneschal outfit.

They're just not trying to immerse us anymore. This was so disjointed. Not long until they have bots writing the quests. Maybe this event was already written by one.