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I had so many questions building up over time regarding those two and not a single one of them being answered in the expansion supposedly about wrapping up their story rendered me into an uncannily flat puddle. Expectations... subverted!

It sure would have been cool to witness Zodiark's actual summoning, as he comes into being and the Amaurotines huddling for safety or about to get eaten glance up at the skies returning to blue as the terminus creatures are vanished. A shot of the ruins and the post-apocalyptic wasteland of a world with its life all but wiped out so we could get an actual sense of loss and scale. Or Elidibus pooling and forming out from the core like the short story. Or Hydaelyn's own summoning. Or the clash between the two, the debate between the Amaurotines on how to proceed. What would have also been nice for worldbuilding? Actual solid numbers, an actual timeline of events.

But instead... vague fluffy Answers music video. Must've ran out of budget.
Didn't you hear? Apparently making Estinien put his foot on the balcony outside the Sharlayan *College Dorm* was one of the most expensive scenes in Endwalker. Look no further than the "slice of life" fluff to see where the budget that should've been spent on actual fantasy sequences has gone.