Stormblood showed us picking a side... although we already have done that. Shadowbringers and Endwalker lean a lot into the anime tropes, beating enemies with the power of friendship and having enemies become friends. Somehow this makes people create memes about Stormblood being pro-war because killing a bunch of people and forgiving (mass) murderers like Zenos or bird girl is apparently a sane way of acting according to the playerbase at large.