More Story like 7.2 Please!

[Cleretic]

Dawntrail reduces them (after 2 expansions as the protagonist) to just being Wuk Lamat's hanger-on, contributing nothing other than beating up whatever's in her way until the story's only got minutes to midnight (and even then Lamaty'i steals their thunder with seconds on the clock).

Personally I would argue that you're greatly simplifying and tinting this in a negative like, but that this choice is to the story's benefit, because the WoL is an absolute dud of a character as far as... y'know, character goes. That's not necessarily a negative, it's just not what they're designed for, so of course they're bad at it; Link's bad at carrying dramatic scenes too, but we don't really expect him to. Really, the only things they can give the WoL in terms of big character beats and showoff scenes is cool fight moments, and engine limitations mean those don't work well, either.

Hell, I'd say that the single greatest sell of the WoL's power, reputation and energy was actually brought on by Dawntrail: When they just walk slowly towards Bakool Ja Ja, past mercenaries that dare not risk a shot, not even drawing a weapon, and Bakool immediately starts regretting every choice that led to this moment. That one scene, more than anything Shadowbringers or Endwalker tried on much larger scales, sells the WoL as a badass with a history, and it's genuinely a really hard scene to pull off. You fumble the character's reputation, Bakool's response, even just the walking animation, and it doesn't sell. Hell, even just doing that same trick a second time too quickly makes it fall over; Doctor Who learned that one. But done successfully, that scene embodies everything the WoL can and should bring to a story.