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

[CrownySuccubus]

If youre going to make a statement at least back it up with proof. Here's an interview with the ff7 dev.

At the very end of FFVII, we see the epilogue to the whole story that takes place 500 years later, so really, you still have another 497 years' worth of games and movies to fill in....
YK: Ha, maybe I'll try to do that. In a way, I consider that epilogue to be the true happy ending of FFVII. Well, it's a happy ending even though all the human beings are destroyed. [Laughs]

So yeah...humanity is destroyed. 12 ending is incredibly devastating. Non human races slowly being rendered extinct due to the loss of magic? sounds pretty bad to me.They even touch on this in 12-2.
So no, id say compared to most of the series 14 isnt bold and spicy. Maybe in ARR and HW maybe even SB, but ShB and forward it most certainly isnt.

Ah yes, the interview in which Kitase was promoting the release of Advent Children, the official sequel to FFVII.

So, what does Tetsuya Nomura have to say?

Nomura: The shot of Midgar that appears in that particular sequence was FFVII’s greener version of Midgar, 500 years in the future. It symbolizes people returning to living aboveground. (….) So it’s a story where in the end, people go back to living aboveground, choosing a life closer to nature.

If youre going to make a statement at least back it up with proof.

All you had to do was ask.

12 ending is incredibly devastating. Non human races slowly being rendered extinct due to the loss of magic? sounds pretty bad to me.They even touch on this in 12-2.

This is, like, bog standard for most FF games save for, say, the first five and IX, then. They always start or end with most non-human species dying. Hell, even FFXIII-3 ended with the literal destruction of the entire world and everyone waking up in what seems like the "real" world, implying that all magic and non-human beings also died in that one.