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

[Teraq]

(good post)

(...) He also mentioned on the sundered people not remembering that if he genocided a race, he also wouldn't want people remembering anything about it either. "Covering up the crime" is what he called it.

Between this, it being mentioned by Elidibus in the 5.0 stinger and her being revealed as a big damn primal...........

...but no! Obviously, thinking Hydaelyn might have turned out to be dodgy was just an edgy headcanon you guys. She was always a good egg and I'm not sure why you'd assume otherwise you edgelords!

Predictable, but I really don't care. I would rather have a predictable decent story than the horrible paced, tonal dissonant riddled mess for the sake of "subverting expectations".

Yup. Predictable doesn't mean bad. In fact, some degree of predictability is pretty good, especially for the conclusion to an arc: it means the internal logic was consistent and that the plot delivered on points that were set up.

I'm gonna say it again, but the game telling us the Big Antagonist Figure Zodiark was actually Background Long-Lasting Antagonist Elidibus, only to make nothing out of it but an excuse for a power-up that serves as an unrelated-to-Zodiark series reference, is Chekhov's Gun turning out to be a water gun. It's used... but... uh.