I'm genuinely curious or rather unsure if the story can even be salvaged at this point, it's something I wanted to make a thread about, but I'm not sure how to put it. It's just..

This is like a curse the game will have to carry for the rest of its life. EVERY new player will have to slog their way through this, a dark stain in an otherwise shining legacy, not very different from 1.0 FFXIV being a stain on Final Fantasy as a franchise and how did they fix that? By blowing up the world.

The MSQ is already like this jenga tower that is build up, every expansion makes it taller and taller, but it ALWAYS has to stand on what came before. If one section isn't stable, nothing that comes after it will be stable. And again, every new player has to climb this tower at least once (or skip I guess, but then why play FFXIV?). How can this be sustainable going forward?