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

[Rulakir]

If what Y'shtola believes about the blasphemies is true, then all the people who turned on The Source probably also doomed other people.

I hadn't thought about this. I was envisioning everything becoming whole again eventually except there would be a lot of souls who would be incapable of it. You'd end up with a sect of 6/14 souls running around who'd have even less ability than the current denizens of the Source. Even the WoL at 9/14 can't wield enough creation magic to fashion a robe (but we can create Fray/Esteem :P).

I remember getting very distinct hints that Hydaelyn had been controlling us and pushing us to action through some form of tempering, and someone pointed out earlier that Sharlayan ended up being much more tame than we had been led to believe before now.

I though Sharlayan was going to end up being founded by Venat's followers and a large part of their secrecy was going to revolve around keeping the wisdom of the Ancients concealed from the public. Instead, we get a bunch of scholars equally seduced by Hydaelyn who at most are trying to keep the knowledge of the Final Days hidden.

I was fairly certain they weren't going to have the WoL tempered because people would riot that their character had no free will all this time (which is laughable given how little agency we had throughout ARR and EW), but I still maintain Hydaelyn tempering makes more sense than what we got which was everyone trusting her implicitly and never questioning or criticizing her. Krile, in particular, I just wanted to smack. Every Scion, every scholar in Sharlayan, Midgarsomr, and basically anyone else who comes in contact with her falls under her thrall. Not to mention my own character going from "I can't trust you" to rather quickly returning to being her lackey.