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

[Kazhar]

I have a weird question for you guys.

...is there anything you guys liked about Endwalker?

Like, sure, okay, it was a "major let down, end of" and all that jazz. But you guys are still here o: After 3 patches, and I assume it'll continue, yeah? Why? :| Do y'all think a miracle will happen and Square will change the course of their writing which they clearly haven't shown any indication of doing?

If we're talking about the story, I don't have much to say against Garlemald and Thavnair 2.0. (I know opinions are mixed on these so I'm only representing myself here.)
The zero consequence Fandaniel stunt at the end of Garlemald was certainly a sign of things to come, but otherwise I thought it was great. I loved the story of heroes wanting to liberate a country that doesn't want anything to do with them because you can't just erase decades of propaganda and bad blood like this.
Thavnair 2.0 delivered what I expected from the Final Days. Too bad the momentum died completely afterwards.
I really liked Pandaemonium so far too, but I reserve my judgement fom the time being. There's a lot that could potentially go wrong in a single patch.

But I can safely say I no longer play this game for the story. It used to be a major motivation for me, now I'm basically here only because I still enjoy the raids and playing with my group of friends. Have they not been here, I would probably have unsubbed.

If 6.1 onwards was a completely blank slate with an entirely new cast (and generally more exciting than what they delivered so far), I could have seen myself giving the new story a chance. But it seems it's gonna be more of the same (and Yoshi-P's comments that they want 7.0 to be another "battle of values" are worrying to say the least. After EW I have no faith they'll do it right, and I firmly believe ShB was a happy accident).