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

[aveyond-dreams]

Regardless of whatever the original influence was for these two deities it doesn't solve the problem that a lot of us wanted to see both Zodiark and Hydaelyn have ample screentime/development this expansion and we got neither. No duel between the two, barely any time where we got to see them in their godlike forms, no transformation sequences, nothing!

Venat was nice to hang out with and then when left to her own devices proceeds to: destroy the world, using the flimsiest logic that only holds up under the hype of the initial launch, or twitch chat where 10000 people are spamming emojis in unison. To be clear I didn't want to see more of Hermes/Zenos as Zodiark-I wanted to see more of how things were in that period where Elidibus was in control. At least he'll get more fleshed out over the course of Pandemonium, but it will have nothing to do with Zodiark.

The actual game right now has all but gotten rid of most of the magic holding it together and now we have to go after the 12. Playing in a world that lacks the dominant supernatural presence provided by the gods just feels wrong, and currently since the void is still too far in the future to be anything besides teases in the coming patches, I can't say I have high expectations for the coming batch of MSQ quests. It doesn't feel at all like the "just adventuring" days of ARR when we were discovering bits and pieces of the world, I don't expect much from 6.1 besides aimless wandering and the treasure map dungeon all while pushing even more fanservice from our beloved cast of plushies.