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

[RyuDragnier]

I personally still hold FFIX as one the series's best stories told with an interesting and diverse cast, its themes, its world and even its main villian. Nothing in FFXIV can ever surpass it imo

I'd say it's one of the worst, but I really hate how half of the cast becomes irrelevant after Disc 2, and how off the wall nuts it goes.