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

[Raoabolic]

*see all these people beat up on VIII*
You know your story is suffering when people are saying "W-Well, at least it's not as bad as FF8!". You know, FF8. The game where the writers wrote themselves into a corner and thought "I dunno, the GFs eat their memories up. I dunno, lol." And this is coming from someone who actually liked FFVIII. If you think Squall is a 1 dimensional character then I doubt you remember the story. Play through the Garden vs Garden part of the story or the Esther part of the story and come back to me, lol.


Edit: Holy cow! I just realized the GF/memory part of VIII's story is just their sadbird/plot mcguffin moment! lol