Would Endwalker have been better if we never visited Elpis at all?

[NekoMataMata]

They still placed an immensely heavy emphasis on the moon, what with ShB ending with us staring at the moon and it turning red(which is never explained), the trailer depicting WoL on the moon with the source glowing an ominous color and blasphemies on the moon, to Fandaniel talking about how Zodiark was full of rage meanwhile we don’t see any of that at all….

Agreed. Besides that, we all understand that Zodiark was not meant to be the final boss of the expansion's story, both in lore and pacing but it felt really, really weird with how early we dealt with it before moving on.

Zodiark was this enormous looming issue throughout the majority of the story. Even if Zodiark is technically a red herring and Meteion is some sort of twist villian(not sure if this is an okay way to describe it), it still felt it didn't get the attention it deserved.