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

[Rulakir]

Well, my current thought process is this: The 13th is essentially the result of a Flood of Darkness, right? So, shouldn't that mean the whole star is a dark version of The Empty on the First? Even if we do manage to restore the 13th, what purpose would that serve (and what would that mean for the RPR job)? It'd be years before it was inhabitable again (noting that Yoshi-P is loathe to commit to any significant passage of time). Assuming we figure out a way to reverse being voidsent they couldn't feasibly live there any more than anyone on the First can currently stay in The Empty.

Also, I'm not a fan of the idea that the sundered can manage a way to undo in a short period of time what neither the Ascians or Hydaelyn could figure out in 10k years. While it probably won't happen for obvious reasons, I'd love to see a recount of events on the 13th showing Hydaelyn having abandoned them to their fate while, conversely, Elidibus tried to save as many as he could. Feel free to refresh my memory, but I don't recall Unukalhai or Cylva commenting that they had any "divine" assistance against the coming doom and, unlike the Flood of Light, Hydaelyn doesn't have the same excuse of being too weak when that was the first shard to fall.

Seems like the void and voidsent still need to exist to some extent just based on the RPR job alone.

As for the Garleans, I got nothing other than maybe them studying technology on the moon will eventually lead to a reason for us to go back there? Frankly, it feels like the powers that be just wanted to be done with them as a race, as a culture, as even an influence on anything. Hopefully I'm wrong about that, but right now it just looks bad.

Edit: Forgot to mention I was hoping the junior writers would give us grittier storytelling not more comedy.