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

[MikkoAkure]

Looks like a mix of both Aztec and Inca stuff from what I have seen. And the Japanese love Peru so I expect some Machu Picchu paralells
I just hope the mainstream press never find out about some Whalaqee being white redheads or they might try to hitpiece the game to death like they tried with XVI

The Aztec stuff seems to be in Tuliyollal, which is the city in the center of the whole continent, at the border of the thick clouds. Makes sense since that's where Mexico is in our world.

Otherwise, Yok Tural looks like South America, with what is probably Yak Tell looking exactly like the Amazon rainforest and the mountains west of it looking exactly like the Andes. Though it was said there are cenotes in Yak Tell, which are a Meso-American thing instead of a South American thing. The flat-topped mountains in the middle remind me of the tepuis in Venezuela (Mount Roraima/mountains in Up), which might be the neatest looking place in the game if done right.

There's still more of the map to uncover. Northern Tural has thicker clouds than the southern-most bit so maybe it won't come this expansion? I'd guess the northern part is where the Whalaquee are from.

Meracydia has the same cloud style that the southern-most part of Tural has so could it be that both will be uncovered at a later fan fest? Or is this looking too deeply into it?