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

[OdinelStarrei]

I enjoy that this thread is still going strong. Wonder if we'll get a dawntrail version too.

There was one made, in bad faith, a few months ago that fell off. I don't think one will be needed to this extent.

Even if DT story is worse than EW, it won't have the same impact. EW was a drastic re-adjustment to how I personally think about the story, as in, I enjoyed it before, now I don't. Many fundamental parts and mysteries of the setting were resolved outright. Some of the things people love or hate about the world of FFXIV as of 6.5 are now load-bearing pillars to the setting. Example: Person A had investment in the void plot. Void plot has now happened, and Person A didn't like it. So in any future void-adjacent story, Person A will know better than to be excited for, or at least, will have less investment in it.

If we start at "This is good." or "I don't know what I feel." and move to "I now actively dislike this.", that is more of a shock than starting from a position of "This is bad" and moving to "This is now good/better." due to negativity bias and we cannot unroll the dice of EW.

DT will be free from that baggage, but I'm not wasting my investment a second time. Fool me once, and all that.

The less relevant EW is to DT, the better. That includes any lingering feelings, or lack thereof, as well.