Yeah I'll be honest with you,

Endwalker was probably the worst of the story expansions. I really just flat out did not enjoy the story much except at small points. There was just sooo much cringe in this one that even went beyond the kind you saw in ARR the original. The Climax was pretty engaging with the ending of the Meteion arc, but... so much in between was either flat out boring or just cringe worthy. And as much as I loved the Shadowbringers expansion, which really had a very mature story... the reality is, it really almost completely re-wrote the Ascians into something they never were or were intended to be. Now they are screwed with the Meteion arc which comes out of nowhere because it was originally supposed to be the Ascians who did those things.

You can clearly see in ARR and Heavensward the Ascians were supposed to be attached to the Void or emptiness. They were the bad guys working with the Voidsent to devour the world. This played itself out in all of the after stories and alliance raids of those two. Hell they even hosed it in the Endwalker where Zodiark actually looks more like a Demon or Voidsent, not some Eikon or Primal created by what was originally in the new story line the "peace loving" Ascians.

Not only did Endwalker hose up the original story... but on top of that it really just wasn't that terribly exciting to play through other than the end run.

I didn't start feeling like I was even playing a Final Fantasy game until the afterstory with the Voidsent.
And even then they still threw in so much cringe it was annoying at times. This constant "need for emotional reinforcement and support" or "rah rah" you can do it stuff was even more overdone in Endwalker as a whole, than it was in the ARR. All it really did was make the many of the important characters look weak and insecure. It's fine to do it on occasion, but god it was almost every other conversation.