So SE has officially stated their MMO profits have tanked.

[Absurdity]

I can only imagine the feeling of playing in a world where nations mattered, everyone had their own thing. The possibilities of adventure from land to land. Now everything is just a blob of boring peace called the Eorzean Alliance where they casually forgot they had issues in their own nations.

And when its time to adventure? Why bother. Sharlayan the writer pet nation KNOWS everything. Has DISCOVERED everything and has a spaceship that shouldve been IMPOSSIBLE to build. WHY do we even bother anymore as the WoL? We have space bunnies that can do CREATION MAGIC. Endwalker ruined this games world so badly

Don't forget everything being ancients all along.

The Allagan Empire? Ancients. Garlemald? Ancients. The gods? Ancients. Preservation and consequently the entire reason we had conflict with Alexandria? Ancients. Yes, I am technically equating Ascians and Ancients here because what are the Ascians at their core?
I honestly can't remember but I wouldn't be surprised if the War of the Magi was caused by the ancients in some form as well.

Having a highly advanced civilization that fell to ruin hundreds of years in the past can be interesting, it's what initially made Allag so interesting in the early days of XIV.
But when that civilization is responsible for every conspiracy, every antagonist, every major event in the history of the world? It becomes stupid.

And to a certain extent it also kills my sense of adventure, because wherever we set foot in the future it's just going to be ancients again.

Endwalker really is the gift that keeps on giving.