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

[BaconBits]

I've been thinking lately about how I'd have liked Meteion more as the final boss if she actually acted more like a villain instead of the game hammering the idea she was a victim of Hermes' misguided experiment all over again in the last hours.

Anyone old enough to play this game got the message by the end of the Elpis nonsense. The endsinger we meet at the end has NOTHING to do with the threatening giggling voice we hear upon Zodiark's defeat and I wish they had went with that instead. She's boring and the game had enough scenes where we hug literally or figuratively an antagonist.

Reject sympathetic villains, return to villains that actively make you want to wrap your hands around their throats.