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

[Rulakir]

Where's my option to say "Hey, thanks, we can settle our differences later"? Or when I was forced to kill Emet-Selch where was my option to say "I understand why you are doing this and I wish it didn't have to end this way". Always forced to be combative and never empathetic when it actually matters.

Even Preach was asking why he couldn't respond with, "Let's get a drink after this!" to Zenos.

The thing that bothers me most about the dialog options for Emet and Elidibus is that for Hermes, the person responsible for the Final Days and one of the biggest arses in the series, we get to say, "Next time we'll find it together." It wasn't until EW we got to say sorry to Elidibus and I'm blanking on when we get to say anything to Emet that isn't us being a smart aleck or just looking sad.

Urienger is an example of this for me. I hated that he kept lying to us and going behind our backs. I was really happy that we got to actually explore that frustration in EW cause that dude has been driving me crazy since the end of HW.

I can't stand Urianger because of this. He would've been kicked off my team and yet I'm forced to endlessly put up with his duplicity.