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

[Eisi]

I honestly don't know why they didn't do that. It would have tied it all up nicely giving everyone a happy ending and made the WoL a hero. Even fits their "power of friendship" theme without messing up anything else in the story they wanted to tell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One hundo percent! It would have been so cool if we as sundered beings could have helped the ancients build a better future for themselves.

Imagine if that was the secret hope that Elidibus hinged on when he sent us back. That there was this tiny chance that at least the ancients from another time might have a chance.

We would leave them behind to deal with the coming final days themselves, but this time they'd be in the know, not lost and entrusting their fate to false gods of their own making.

[Brinne]

One hundo percent! It would have been so cool if we as sundered beings could have helped the ancients build a better future for themselves.

Imagine if that was the secret hope that Elidibus hinged on when he sent us back. That there was this tiny chance that at least the ancients from another time might have a chance.

We would leave them behind to deal with the coming final days themselves, but this time they'd be in the know, not lost and entrusting their fate to false gods of their own making.

We only overcame the Final Days with the knowledge regarding them gained from the Ancients' direct help and even self-sacrifice for our sake, so in some ways it seems kinda unfair and callous to not grant them the same in turn, huh?

Anyway, back to Elpis to raid their treasure maps and collect some more quest rewards, I suppose!

EDIT: As far as Ishikawa goes, who knows exactly who is responsible for what components of the Huge Mess (tm), but considering the material she's confirmed to have directly written after 6.0 - the Omega quests and the NieR Reincarnation crossover, along with her being responsible for the narratives that started pushing "grey" for Hydaelyn to begin with - I'm not really inclined to think that my own issues with EW's storytelling can be laid at her feet particularly. But we'll probably never know for sure what exactly went down in that crowded, crowded kitchen.

[Rosenstrauch]

Anyway, back to Elpis to raid their treasure maps and collect some more quest rewards, I suppose!

Don't forget harvesting their creations and exploiting the familial trauma of a young man and his father to satisfy Sharlayan curiousity!

EDIT: But seriously, I hope we go back to the past for the final wing of Pandaemonium. Having it set in the present, without any of the cast anyone actually cares about, would be a massive waste.

[KageTokage]

Don't forget harvesting their creations and exploiting the familial trauma of a young man and his father to satisfy Sharlayan curiousity!

EDIT: But seriously, I hope we go back to the past for the final wing of Pandaemonium. Having it set in the present, without any of the cast anyone actually cares about, would be a massive waste.

I'm feeling like it's going to be set in both as Themis instructed us to come back and inquire about the crystal after they had done some clean-up pertaining to the warders and stray creations.

We'll probably end up learning how/why Pandaemonium ends up appearing in the present..but it's going to be difficult to get a proper read on the situation without telling him the truth of things, so I'd like to hope it happens somehow so I don't feel dirty.