Quote Originally Posted by Arzalis View Post
I mean, I know why the story is kinda mediocre for 6.x. It's the first time it has no relation to anything. Up until now patch stories have always been a continuation to resolve lingering things from the x.0 story and charge full force into the next expansion.

This whole patch cycle is quite literally filler content and is super rushed because they have to both start it and resolve it all in a fraction of the normal time. Not to mention they had always had lore and characters here and there related to the void, some of which were interesting, and basically used none of it. Likely due to lack of time.
Except it is about the voidsent of Zenos and their feelings on his actions as well as their journey to self actualization. It's about the saving of a reflection that was caused by Venat's sundering from an Ascian plot that plunged its world into darkness and led to generations of mindless indulgence.

Acting like it has nothing to do with anything is a stretch. I think you and many others are suffering from the effects of time. I think the patch story would feel differently if maybe you were able to play the parts closer together directly after Endwalker.