Can 7.0 focus on a storyline without the philosophizing

[AwesomeJr44]

How is in universe time irrelevant

It is irrelevant because if you are going to make a story about overcoming despair, you need to show proper examples of how your heroes are currently suffering from it, not examples from half a decade ago in real time, especially when the characters in question have received massive amounts of plot armor since those stories. If you don't do this, it is the equivalent of writing a story about a recovered alcoholic recovering from alcoholism, while said alcoholic is never in any danger of falling back into that habit. It's entirely redundant.

If you want to call people still dealing with past events a crutch go for it. Just tells me you don't understand people.

It is indeed a narrative crutch. The amount of misinterpretation here has to be intentional.

Scions aren't "immune" to new things. They deal with death n loss just like anyone else. What I really think is the issue and what may of you mean when you say "consequences" is that none of them have died.

The scions suffer no long term consequences in Endwalker. This is not exclusive to character deaths. The only people who suffer long term consequences in Endwalker are new characters specifically introduced to suffer those consequences so the heroes don't have to.

Also retroactive? Did you somehow forget end of 1.0 we were thrusted in time to ARR?

That is functionally a time skip, not time travel, thus I did not count it as an example of it, nor should it be.

Btw the Scions quite literally are doing thier own things atm...

They're literally doing their own things at the moment until we do literally anything and then they suddenly appear from thin air. We couldn't even have our own adventure with Estinien in 6.1 without several of them showing up.