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

[MikkoAkure]

"I automatically know what this story is doing with a concept because I've seen how completely different stories do it" is kind of a weird way to engage with a text.

The whole concept of “Utopia” from its original inception is that it’s a farce, that’s the way almost every single piece of media has played it to be, and the writers even connected it directly to that original concept with its naming of the main city the civilization centered around.


The way the story interacted with the Ancients was always awkward because it was very roughly tacked on with no foreshadowing and the concept didn’t even occur to the writers until halfway through the life of the game.

The Ancients were always going to die because otherwise our characters and world going back to the very beginning of the game wouldn’t exist. The writers stumbled when trying to make a pre-existing civilization in the middle of the story that’s somehow responsible for everything from the elementals to migrating birds, made them the civilization of our enemies that have caused every bad thing to happen, but also balance that out with being empathetic and the events around them being a tragedy caused by the entity that had been unquestionably good and supportive this whole time.