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

[PawPaw]

Do we know the timeline between our visit to Elpis/Meteion's turn and the Final Days? I figured that Meteion wouldn't wait all that long before triggering it. Honestly, with her goal as it was, it seems like she should have just triggered it right away, I don't think she had to go store up dynamis or anything.

(Though I assume they wouldn't want to do that since they want you to be able to go back and do stuff in Elpis pre-Final Days, but maybe the Pandemonium raid line will touch on it in the end)

I don't think we know for sure. Meteion says something about going to the edge of the Universe to build her nest and hoard despair, but that's all we've got as far as her plans directly after her escape. I don't think we have a timeline for Pandemonium either, as in are we there before or after the events in Elpis with Hermes? We could assume that it's after since Themis mentions Azem being aware of us but since we are still unaware of how Azem manages to know everything we do before we do it, that might not mean anything either. Hopefully we'll find out in the end, as you said.

ETA: I still want to know how we were able to use the same portal that we used the first time we traveled to Elpis which hadn't been changed in any way, but managed to arrive correctly sized and completely visible this time. Not to mention the portal dropping us in a completely different location from the one the original let us out in.