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

[Teraq]

Oh, you guys will love this particular little tidbit of the French localisation:

Instead of commenting on Athena's ambition with "And you would destroy the lives already upon it!", Erichthonios says "You would destroy current mankind to replace it with your 'new species'!? This is madness, that's… genocide!".

Interesting phrasing, isn't it? It's like you could literally just transpose this, word for word, particularly the specification of current mankind (because there is a special place in the sea of stars for people who just lump the Ancients and the Sundered under one big "mankind, unspecified"), to what anyone at all SHOULD have said to Venat.

Hey… she does have exactly the same eye color after all, doesn't she? Mommy…

How dare people with similar opinions on the story agree with each other!
I don't know what else you expected, the explicit goal of that discord was explained each time the link was shared.

jeez how DARE I like posts I agree with… That's like. bRigADiNg!!!!!!

Not to mention, personally I have indeed bothered to resub only to see Pandaemonium to its end because it's the last thing I cared about (as I flat out said in my very first post on this thread a year and some months ago). But I know a lot of people just plain didn't because they've moved on to other games. I didn't manage to motivate my friends to run Pandaemonium with me this week…

And as this forum requires not just a subscription but active playtime (seriously this is silly), there is a high chance the number of likes you see under posts are not coming from the evil cabal of mean and nasty trancers that live in your mind, but from… unassociated people just reading the thread. Because ultimately people are going to be drawn to discussion whose premise is of interest to them. And then there are the weirdos who are here solely to seethe for whatever reason. I'd get a better hobby if I were you guys… I've heard a content patch just dropped, surely they would be busy playing all that content of a game they love, with a story that surely is not quite lackluster.