Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
It's not even a cohesive level of sci-fi. Allag and Garlemald both fit the idea of highly advanced civilizations still grounded in the context of the setting, and now Cosmic Exploration is a mix of Gundam and NASA. The Ninth's detritus isn't even coherent with itself, ranging from generic cyberpunk to Phantasy Star and plenty else.
This is the main issue that the "But FFXIV always had scifi" - defenders always conveniently shut their ears and eyes from.

Scifi isn't bad, it's not about not having a full "fantasy" FFXIV. It's about do the inserts MAKE SENSE or follow the worldbuilding and cohesive point of view. We went from magical unattainable allagan tech that fiddled with magic and science, to scrappy magitek that wasn't even near levels of the allagan tech but derived from it.
To suddenly modern day scifi references, the devs favorite gundam references, and a full blown cyberpunk reference (copy), and now star trek combined with all that. Not to mention the ludicrous fact that Electrope just can do anything the writers want it to do.

Endwalker ruined the worldbuilding, and it's been marching to the grave ever since.