I agree with the OP, it's a ridiculous to have 4 mooks and a potato arrest any of us after we killed a 10-storey Godzilla. That's the start of the shaky execution of the 2.55 story. It's refreshing to see some people like the OP who had the stones to call out the bizarre and poor conclusion of the ARR story for what it was.

Many of things were basically forced down our throats (such as the "dramatic" Scion deaths, laughable) in order to roll out the red carpet for Heavensward.Thanks to our efforts in saving the realm from primals, imperials, Gojira, and Hildibrand's detective skills - we are now de facto fugitives in the very city states we put so much at stake for. Yoshi-P said that the goal of the story was to make players feel a sense of heroism, and that their actions would change Eorzea as an agent of light. After one and a half years of storytelling, our characters are now defined by total INACTION and we're not even agents of the light anymore. Talk about a rubbish payoff.