Thank you for this, genuinely. I don't want to hold ill will toward those who liked the Dawntrail MSQ, but I really worry for what may happen to this game if people continue to be unwilling to criticize it in meaningful ways. So many members of the XIV community fight so hard to make themselves look past glaring flaws out of fear or letting their enjoyment wane; I know because I used to be one of them (granted, Endwalker's flaws are not NEARLY on this level, but the post patches come pretty close). But we need to let Square Enix know that this is unacceptable. I don't know how they can manage to salvage the damage done to the overarching narrative by this expansion, but whatever it is, they have to start NOW, and they can begin by never letting whoever was lead writer this time add so much as a single line of text to the game again.