Does FFXIV Hate Politics Now? [Spoilers for Dawntrail 7.1]

[Hallarem]

Garlemald being destroyed offscreen (endwalker) = SE: "Nah, cba to write all that political intrigue in an expansion"
Nophica in the raid (endwalker) = "The elementals love you, they are just misunderstood" = Any politics and nuance in Gridania is done and swept under the rug, what duskwight and keeper mistrust?
(At least they didnt sweep religion under the rug)

To be fair, Shadowbringers was a world ending situation, not much room for politics there except in small ways. Endwalker partially too, but I'm not forgiving that expansion for pressing the pedal towards this issue and actually the "world ending" was ONLY Radz-at-han being bombed for an afternoon, so yeah. Endwalker doesnt get a pass, they were lazy even with their world ending threat.

Endwalker I think was the true axe to the head of any worldbuilding and politics, they are just focusing on grand sweeping things like their themes and some world ending threat.

Radz at han = No politics with nobles who according to items and lore exist but are hidden somewhere, no nuance. Its just a happy nation of alchemists who are neutral and when the dragon ruler is revealed they accept him
Garlemald gone because pacing sucked and Endwalker was two expansions mashed into one
Not a really in depth look into Sharlayan either, just grr grr grumpy council and gleaners
Dont even get me started on the stupid beast tribe quests that basically tried to erase all the planets being erased by resurrecting them or some trite. I skipped most of the cutscenes because the concept annoyed me
Where are the stakes? Everything is earned way too easily, Vrtra's arse shows up to save Tuliyollal with a text message and no conversation (offscreen) and he non-dialogue cutscenes to the rescue because they agreed on a "treaty" mid-invasion? in like an hour? how lazy/incompetent are they with this? They could have cut so many filler cutscenes for actual cutscenes with story, meaning and worldbuilding.

Dawntrail just doubled down on that non-committed unearned happiness and I felt like I was on some weird scripted tour of North Korea, where they are only allowed to show us a facade of happiness.

I'm half expecting that the eon long warring tribes of the Steppe will be solved in one dialogue of "Oh yea, we had a meeting with all the tribes we have been kidnapping and killing for centuries and decided that from now on we will solve our differences with tea and dumplings over at Reunion because one of the main cast talk-no.-jutsud us into it." this is how HORRID the writing is at the moment.