I remember really disliking earlier HW, I was complaining about it to people and was basically coming back every few minutes to be like AND ANOTHER THING. it wasn't until near the end that it became one of my favorite expansions. But if you're upset with these topics, you may also dislike Stormblood, there's sooo many racist microaggressions and red flags throughout it in the actual writing/art, I remember just having my mouth drop open at a few points, and the playerbase really, really prefers to never, ever talk acknowledge that.

Regretfully, Shadowbringers and Endwalker are so good in part because of what they're building on from these earlier expansions, so trudging through them is a bit necessary to really get that truly wow factor out of the later parts.