I'm Frustrated with FFXIV's New Direction

[Talamh]

We returned to being just another adventurer, who happens to have in their background, the fact we saved the entire planet. But our goal was to return to our roots. DT's MSQ was like ARR, it was setting up this new areas lore for us.

While I haven't even touched on Dawntrail yet because I want to clean up all other sidequests first, I always feel a twitch in my brain when I hear people utter this line...

What Roots?

Hydaelyn put you together by coalesce enough souls in the Aetherial sea in order to further this end goal of creating her child, the Warrior of Light.
You never were, just a mere adventurer. As far as you know, you awoke last Thursday on a caravan heading to a city state. You are, the chosen one and your mother is Hydaelyn.
This is something people never seem to get with XIV's story. Even Lahabrea points this out to you in the ARR Ultima cutscene.

Otherwise where are your parents?
Why are they never acknowledged at all?
Is the Wol an orphan like traditional FF3? Acute Memoryloss like FF1?
No. You are a child of the mother crystal. The Warrior of Light. Not some mere adventurer.

XIV's story was always bad with small glimmers of greatness.
From what I've heard regarding the end of Dawntrail, I'm not the least bit interested in an interdimensional shard-hopping civilization with computers.
I just want the 1.0/ARR/FFXI clothing style back where it felt like there was a consistent style rather than... all over the place.

[Supersnow845]

While I haven't even touched on Dawntrail yet because I want to clean up all other sidequests first, I always feel a twitch in my brain when I hear people utter this line...

What Roots?

Hydaelyn put you together by coalesce enough souls in the Aetherial sea in order to further this end goal of creating her child, the Warrior of Light.
You never were, just a mere adventurer. As far as you know, you awoke last Thursday on a caravan heading to a city state. You are, the chosen one and your mother is Hydaelyn.
This is something people never seem to get with XIV's story. Even Lahabrea points this out to you in the ARR Ultima cutscene.

Otherwise where are your parents?
Why are they never acknowledged at all?
Is the Wol an orphan like traditional FF3? Acute Memoryloss like FF1?
No. You are a child of the mother crystal. The Warrior of Light. Not some mere adventurer.

XIV's story was always bad with small glimmers of greatness.
From what I've heard regarding the end of Dawntrail, I'm not the least bit interested in an interdimensional shard-hopping civilization with computers.
I just want the 1.0/ARR/FFXI clothing style back where it felt like there was a consistent style rather than... all over the place.

This completely ignores the lore of legacy WOL’s and the dubious canonicity of the fact that it’s possible that all players “experienced” legacy and were sent forward by louisoux even if only legacy players “remember” it

The backstory is up to the player but haedalyn had nothing to do with it. Hell the starshower legacy players saw has nothing to do with haedalyn anyway, it’s a natural phenomenon. The only “predetermined” aspect of your player is the fact that you are a shard of azem but that’s how the aetherial sea works