Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Voidmage]

Absolutely.

The best save SE can do now, is to do a Haurchefant on Poochie. Write in a way to kill the character off. Of course, she doesn't deserve sympathy, so I am thinking more like that M-Tribe neko with the bombs? Something comical to explode her?

I think we would cheer on that event, especially if we got a "Windup Poochie Rug" minion as a quest reward after she bit the big one.

They don’t have to go that far.
I absolutely hate Wuk Lamat but I can see that there are people who like her.
That would be a slap in the face like it was to us.

It would really be already enough to use here less in the future and maybe give our WoL some snarky answers to her.

I’m not asking for more. Just less screentime and breathing room from her.

Knowing how SE listens to feedback and their sunshine and rainbows twitter bubble, we will probably see more Wuk Lamat in the patch quests and next expansion

Which saddens me to say, I'll be leaving this game permanently if that happens

That’s also my fear but I’m getting more hopeful every day.
They took a risk and split the player base. The critique of her smothering everything even comes from the side of those who liked the story and the content creators are also pretty loud about that and the Japanese even louder because being so personal so fast with the nickname is not liked there if a few comments are any indication.

Square listened to the feedback with the keeper fangs for example.
They know what gives them money.

If the double down on her then I may also take my leave because then it becomes apparent that there is some kind of meddling behind the scenes.
I can’t see Yoshida and co actually ignoring the potential losing of customers.
If they do it they deserve more than a slap in the face.
Then the game can and should fail because it is no longer designed for a huge part of the customers and yes, even r/ff14 has comments about this here NOT being a vocal minority like for example with the endwalker story.

They tried something new and it failed. Now let’s see how they handle it. Even just a little recognition of the criticism would probably help.