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

[Lauront]

Again, if you say so.

Frankly, there is zero reason for you feel a personal stake in declaring that this very general issue does not apply to you. It's like if someone in a room full of strangers said, "Most human beings are selfish" and you decided to stand up and declare "Well I'm not!" to people who have never met you before. Either way, it's neither something anyone can verify, nor is it relevant to the general point.



Again, if not then good for you -- but even if this were the case, this is not something most people would even admit to themselves. But the fact remains that, in general, people like feeling that the things they invest their time in have meaning and makes them special for understanding, completing, mastering, or investing time in it. Even if they never brag outwardly to another person, it still gives them that warm, fuzzy feeling inside.

If you claim that this does not apply to you, or doesn't apply you specifically for this game, then great.

I don't feel a personal stake - I'd assumed you were making a general statement but thought I'd comment on it from my perspective. Regarding the second paragraph, I believe it is difficult to take up a hobby and not feel any of those but they're also quite different things to bragging at that point, which is done to flaunt something for the purposes of improving social standing. I'd perhaps demur from the "makes them special" part, but in the sense that people expect some manner of emotional payoff/satisfaction from investing time in a hobby, which can come in the form of those things you mention? Yes, absolutely, and I think it'd be difficult to pursue a hobby while detaching completely from such emotions.