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

[Vyrerus]

I am most concerned about this especially due to the content drought the game will be going through for the next 5-7 months. The quality of the gameplay has diminished greatly and what little story crumbs provided have largely been uneventful and do not inspire confidence about what is to come in the future.

Yeah, I expect bitter videos surrounding XIV to become the norm again like half way through the lull. Then the typical forgetting how much they hated the game during the lull once the expac drops... Assuming it gives as much content on release as prior expacs.

I have started going back and doing New Game + during content droughts like this. I have forgotten a lot of things and I can make a run as a single job through the MSQ which only really means something to me.

I've never actually utilized NG+ in XIV. To me it's kind of a worthless feature, though I'm sure many people appreciate it.

I myself, when I want to re-experience XIV, start a brand new character from scratch. I've done this a total of 7 times over the course of the game's history, the majority of characters I've done this on were between Stormblood and Shadowbringers, and I used to play 2 different characters for raiding purposes since Patch 2.1.

Endwalker was the first time I haven't remade a character from scratch to completely re-experience the story, and since I no longer raid, my second character is still in like 6.2.

I feel like a lot of people have already re-experienced XIV's stories at least twice, either through NG+ or through alts. I don't think it'll be something a lot of folks do during the patch lull.