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

[Midareyukki]

Considering that Zodiark is trapped on the moon and we've seen Ascians on the moon a lot, it was kind of annoying that it was mostly populated by people that were a part of Hydaelyn's faction. They could have taken it a ton of different ways and they picked the most boring option. Sure, it makes sense that Hydaelyn would want someone making sure that Zodiark didn't break out, but the moon always seemed like a place that the Ascians went to when not causing chaos on the planet itself. It definitely would have been cool to meet a group of lesser Ascians who are hanging out on the moon as they have no idea what to do now or perhaps a different group of Zodiark worshipers there that somehow have regained a portion of their memories of the world pre-sundering. But we got stuck with the stupid annoying rabbits instead.

Yeah it doesn't make much sense when the records are like "oop, Elidibaby showed up. I'm just gonna sit here and watch him with a telescope. Maybe if he realizes that we're just watching over Zodiark, he won't attack me." but we know activity was a lot more intense than "he just showed up". There were conferences around the moon, there was this whole dimension that they gathered on and Elidibus himself banished us to. The moon is where he brings the Warrior of Darkness. Hell, we could have explored the effects of Dalamud on the moon, we could have had a bit more to the moon about Menphina or Tsukuyomi, or about the crashed aircraft there in the corner... But no, insted we just got Zodiark in a Can, the Watcher's tower and a crapton of references to pudding and carrots.

For something overhyped to hell since Heavensward, which the fanbase set up great expectations for, it was just bland. And I distinctly remember how people felt in Stormblood: "you guys split the story into two/three major areas but really Ala Mhigo feels like it got shafted". I felt the same in Endwalker. We wanted to go to Sharlayan, we wanted to go to Garlemald, we wanted to go to Thavnair, we wanted to explore the Original World at some point AND we wanted to go to the moon. Well, OBVIOUSLY we weren't expecting all that to just be crammed into the same patch of story. A lot of us thought there'd be two expansions, easily, before all this got wrapped up. I dare say, Eureka has a lot more lore than this. Bozja has a lot more to do than the moon! And you might say "Well yes, it's the moon, it's literally a giant white wasteland sphere orbiting the planet", but there's just so much about the moon in FF14 that they could have used...

Instead we got Puddingway... yaaay...

I'd rather have a predictable but good story than an unpredictable and terrible story.

Game of Thrones Season 8 flashbacks...