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

[Teraq]

I do love how some people are apparently so deranged by the existence of this thread that they feel the need to come in here and tell us that they definitely don't care about us and that we matter so very little, and that there are definitely very few of us. Not only do they keep the thread active and popping just to get dunked on, thus fulfilling its main purpose of visibility, but they also contribute to the general feeling of the dissenting minority being vilified and reinforce the toxically positive GCBTW perception that the FFXIV fanbase is infamous for. And they do it for free too? Nice.

Meanwhile, this thread keeps getting new participants in its "ever growing echo chamber", as a certain someone would put it. Every person that comes in here and says "oh finally, I thought I was alone/crazy, this read was so cathartic" is worth at least 10 of these valiant Endwalker Paladins (Source on my numbers: the same source as the exact numbers of Zodiark sacrifices). It sounds indeed like the outside is just as much of an echo chamber that alienates anyone who disagrees, but that doesn't seem to bother people who whine about us. Perhaps because they agree with it? It is, after all, one of the core tenets of Endwalker: rules for thee but not for me.

Anyway! Good to see Certifiably Good Taste might be slowly seeping in, even on /r/ffxiv:

They were honest about that and gave you all of those things.

This dude really came here and said "technicallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :^)" when it is one of the most common complaints lmao. In fact... the OP opened with it. Even people who overall liked Endwalker can recognize that Zodiark got punked and the Moon barely even mattered compared to what they hyped up. It never was about Hydaelyn and Zodiark, it was about Hydaelyn and The Sound, and Zodiark a non-sentient plot device. It's totally fine to admit you don't care about it in the least; all understanding that people might be miffed about it requires is simply the tiniest shred of empathy.

Read the rest of that post to see how it ultimately devolves into the usual "well, actually they just wrote a different story than the one I wanted them to write...the nerve of those authors...they must be bad."

Ackshually, I have literally never called the authors bad in my post. But then again this isn't the first time you make inexact arguments, for someone who was so pedantic literally a sentence earlier and loves to stick up for facts vs opinion.