Quote Originally Posted by Heroman3003 View Post
A 'good story' without 'philosophizing'.

Aka just meaningless action for sake of action.

Just admit you don't want actual story in your RPG and move onto a different game, rather than demanding this one be brought down to your level.
On the contrary, a lot of people with criticism towards the story do want action and meaningful consequences in the narrative. Instead, we have a story that encases both major and minor characters in ridiculous amounts of plot armour even as it preaches about loss and suffering.

Having played the game myself since the days of ARR, I'd say the people asking it to be brought down to 'their level' are in fact the same people now demanding that absolutely nothing of note ever happens to the Scions or their 'scrungly blurbos' as social media dwellers are wont to say.

The game has been notoriously preachy and saccharine in recent years, with the only actual stakes being targeted at throwaway one-scene wonders such as Tesleen and anyone even remotely antagonistic. If the game wants to be philosophical then it can put its money where its mouth is and start killing at least one decently prominent protagonist every few patches. With any luck, that might lead us to have some actual variety in the cast rather than surface level differences. It's one of the few stories where every major character exists to fawn over one's self insert and just echoes the exact same opinions and morals. Anyone who has a different world view - such as the formerly cynical Estinien or the mercenary Zero - soon end up going through Scionification to erode away any interesting differences.