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

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Some posters do have a habit of - perhaps deliberately - reading into even reasonable posts as if they're some strangely alien take no matter the subject

You said

as it stands, FFXIV and FFXVI very much feel like games designed largely for social media engagement and reactions first and foremost.

Thats what Im replying to. Its really not that deep.

I think what they're doing is considered a strawman fallacy.

Its not a Strawman if its exactly what they said.
But its really not that deep, just found that part of the post weird. Moving on.