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

[Swordsman]

Part 2:

I could not hate Meteion more. I do not care about an anime loli pet that you brought up last-second to be the "big bad", who tries to tell you that all civilizations are going to be nightmare-horrors eventually, especially when they seek "perfection", and who cries black anime blood in a jumpscare, and who wants to destroy everything ever because *some* civilizations die.

Couldn't agree more. I remember back in 2021 when this was first revealed to me during my MSQ playthrough, I just sat there in disbelief. I kept thinking to myself: "is this really it? Is this the culmination of ARR and its four expansions? SE couldn't think of anything better than this?..."

Not to mention dynamis, which is equally silly.