I kinda have the feeling that even though they told us that no XIV resources are getting relocated to XVI, this is not the case. Ever since they announced XVI the game dropped into an abysmal state of lackluster content and badly written story.

Be it Zero who is just a even more shallow Gaia.

Be it the entire expansion being a rushed mess where we couldn't stay in one place for even two moments, so when people finally died it meant nothing.

Be it Zodiark, the bad evil primal getting degraded to a first trial trash boss. Or the famous Anima just being dungeon boss canon fodder.

Be it lackluster content people abandoned quickly, like the variant dungeons.

Island Sanctuary where they put soulless mammets in charge and never gave the players a real home, could've put a neat little "house" into the lighthouse but no the mammets live and work better than we do, lol.

Now we already know what the next trial will be, they aren't even trying to hide or surprise us anymore they just straight up telling us we will fight G.

Newfound Adventurers were just "new" Adventures with the old cast which should've retired or died but they drag them still out every patch clinging to the old sad formula that worked in the past, not getting that people also want to meet new NPCs they don't just already know in and out.

We have no time sink, no bozja or eureka and so far it really shows. People have nothing to do besides roulette to get tomestones for the relics. Which are just sad, just a plain boring tomestone grind. Shadowbringers gave us 4 more trials than we have now, 4 extra raids through bozja one of that a savage one. This expansion we don't even seem to get a three trials questline for whatever reason.

So far Endwalker has been a bigger mess than Stormblood was, what they wanted to portrait and flesh out could've been easily 2-3 expansions especially with Garlemald or Thavnair. But instead each of these really big landscapes got one meager zone and rushed questlines that drag you through there at a speed at which you can simply not learn to care about any of the faces.

And the last and biggest point, the final days got hyped up so much as the big evil cataclysm that will shake the whole world. And it lasted like a week maybe and only really affected thavnair and garlemald. There were no stakes at all in this expansion, no sacrifices or anything of that sort. Everyone magically survived through the power of crystal mommy.