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

[Theodric]

I'd just like balanced storytelling. It wasn't the Scions who drew me into this game, it was the Ascians and the Garleans - especially when both were fleshed out further over the years. I like the Voidsent as well.

A not insignificant amount of us played or play other MMO's. Yoshi-P claims to be a fan of World of Warcraft but I don't see it. I have many complaints about the direction WoW took but much like TESO does it at least bothers to throw more of a bone to fans of non-playable factions and villains/antagonists.

Endwalker would have been fine if it killed off one or two of the Scions and remained consistent in the lines in the sand it had drawn as to what is and is not acceptable when it comes to morality.

...and if we had a final boss that didn't spend 40% of her health bar mindlessly flailing around.

[Vahlnir]

...and if we had a final boss that didn't spend 40% of her health bar mindlessly flailing around.

This was honestly one of the only things that truly made sense to me. A being fueled 95% by emotion just threw everything she had at us including the kitchen sink, and it accomplished nothing. All she had left was to cry, scream and flail. She basically just...broke down mentally. Now realistically, she should have really started to bring the pain in that moment. Just throw everything at us at once like Barbariccia, except with no method to her madness. Just chaos. Planets crashing, stars imploding. Pools of black tears everywhere. Now THAT would have been glorious to me. It could have been better, for sure. But for what it was it made complete sense. I haven't done the Extreme version of that fight though, so I can't really comment on it.

[Striker44]

I'd just like balanced storytelling. It wasn't the Scions who drew me into this game, it was the Ascians and the Garleans - especially when both were fleshed out further over the years. I like the Voidsent as well.

A not insignificant amount of us played or play other MMO's. Yoshi-P claims to be a fan of World of Warcraft but I don't see it. I have many complaints about the direction WoW took but much like TESO does it at least bothers to throw more of a bone to fans of non-playable factions and villains/antagonists.

Endwalker would have been fine if it killed off one or two of the Scions and remained consistent in the lines in the sand it had drawn as to what is and is not acceptable when it comes to morality.

...and if we had a final boss that didn't spend 40% of her health bar mindlessly flailing around.

From what I've seen, the "influence" that Yoshi-P brought from WoW has nothing to do with the storytelling, but rather the gearing system. He borrowed from the WotLK-era WoW that featured tokens and badges (i.e. tomestones) which people generally loved, and one of the biggest complaints aside from the story that people bring to WoW was the move away from that kind of system to the e-sports M+ approach as the way to gear. It's the underlying gameplay system that he recognized was a huge strong point for WoW that he brought over to FFXIV.

And I feel the end of the final boss fight makes perfect sense. After throwing everything at us, including a mega-LB that we block with our own (which itself confuses her because she doesn't expect us to have dynamis power given how the Ancients didn't), she then immediately throws a second mega-LB that she feels should be absolutely unblockable, but we do with the help of our friends (Scions). She's just at a total loss now, which frankly makes sense. She's thrown everything at us, including the kitchen sink, and we're still there. She just doesn't know what to do and basically panics. The music transition at that point I also absolutely loved, and the last part of the fight is basically "the tide has turned". Meteion has no idea what to do anymore, and we have the momentum now.