New story writer for 7.0

[Cleretic]

I encourage you to take a trip around YT videos about the EW storyline. You will find a deluge of comments from people talking about how realistic and genuinely helpful they found it.

If you read that poster's 'rewrite' of Endwalker, you'd know they were literally never going to be happy with what we got, because what they wanted required pretty much every single person to act out of character, and for the story to have basically no thematic or tonal cohesion beyond 'Venat Bad, Empire Good'. (The actual zone structure looked pretty terribly-paced, too, but that's a different problem.)

Honestly, I expect that poster to hate Hiroi's tenure as main writer once it becomes clear that he also isn't going to write something that fits their weirdly specific, angry and kind of concerning ideas. It's not Hiroi's previous work or actual stated feelings giving them hope, it's the fact he's something of a blank slate to project ideals onto.

What you are right about, though, is that this person's a weird outlier; most people liked Endwalker pretty damn well, albeit not as much as Shadowbringers. Getting an idea of how its story specifically stacks up for people is difficult because there's never really been quantitative information on that, but we do have character polls, and most of EW's new characters stack up pretty well. Props to Venat especially, who's so popular she manages to break up the bloc of 'hot, shippable guys' at the top, standing right alongside the likes of Emet, G'raha, and Zenos.