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

[Kazhar]

I just dont necessarily agree with this. Zidane for being the main protag is probably the one with the most personality compared to the previous two in the series. I think what I like the most about him as how he was used to help the other members of the cast grow in their development, and it all came down to when he had to go through his arc towards the end.

The Terra stuff in Disc 3 was just more of the build up with the true nature of the world which I felt it was paced naturally when we spend a good portion of seeing world of Gaia develop in the first 2 discs. Its always a thing with rpgs for it to slowly open up like this and I thought the weird sci-fi yet high fantasy elements with the concept of souls was an interesting idea.

I agree with this take actually, the parts that I found weak are everything between the climatic battle in Alexandria and the trip to Terra (basically the whole Kuja Palace + Four fiends arc), but Terra itself follows one of my favorite trope in JRPGs: when the story brutally shifts the setting and the genre of the work entirely. The end-game revelations are... weird (and decades later I'm still not sure if I like Zidane stealing Vivi's entire plot or not), but it serves to create character moments which made a big impression on my 9 years old self.