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

[Semirhage]

It took you until urianger and yshtola? I felt it was barely believeable at thancred with it being entirely offscreen. With estinien I was 100% convinced that this was only temporary.

*One* of those two could have died. Maybe. Two was definite fakeout. Y'shtola just made the sacrifices actively funny after that point. They may as well have started with her. Though Thancred is pushing his plot armor too with his fakeout death in Amh Araeng. Y'shtola is just the one character I know they'd never kill off. She's in way too much promotional material.

I don't mind Y'shtola's personality in doses. If anything I've found Alisae's grouchy devil-may-care sniping hag routine more obnoxious in the last two expansions. But not gonna lie, I rolled my eyes just a touch when she was coming to the void with us. The void? Deadly maw of darkness and danger that gives pause to even a powerful ancient creature like Vrtra? Count me i- oh wait, Hermeowny Granger is coming? Ah crap, we're just going to run into Golbez and she's going to deliver an "it's LeviOHHHsa, not LevioSAAA" lecture, spit in his face, fling herself off a cliff, and wash up just fine in Sharlayan because she happened to fall directly into a rift shaped exactly like her body.