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

[aveyond-dreams]

This is the Game of Thrones season 8 of FFXIV. While Endwalker is not exactly the worst story ever told (... even though the moral disconnect is certainly something else), the fact that it ruins elements of a story people thought was genuinely good is what makes it especially awful. I don't think people would have cared as much if the game didn't have something before.
In a sense, the game is suffering from Shadowbringers' success in many ways.

At least Game of Thrones fans weren't as hostile to the idea that yeah, they dropped the ball in a pretty major way when it came to the finale. Here we get told we skipped cutscenes or goodness knows whatever else a certain crowd often resorts to.

The same crowd who, despite their protesting, would have loved any other alternate ending to Endwalker so long as it had official sanction by Yoshi. The inverse of the logic they are increasingly desperate to use in order to silence those of us who think for ourselves. They already proved as much is the case time and time again when the groupthink "corrected" for stuff like people calling out Menphina's design, only for the story then to switch to everyone somehow loving it? Or the same sort classic fear tactics used on streamers whenever they react to Elpis or Venat scenes the wrong way.

At any rate I do not understand why I should take those people seriously nor their constant need to jump in here. And to think, we might have gotten out of this expansion by summer's end if not for delay upon delay and we get to live the Endwalker experience all the way until possibly spring of 2024.