Quote Originally Posted by Arkevorkhat View Post
Because frankly, there were hundreds of different ways we could have dealt with this, and as always, the writers chose the laziest, least compelling way possible.

FF14's story has basically no consequences, I could count on my hands the number of major characters, hero or villain, who have either A: Died permanently, or B: Had an actual, non-plot twist driving change of allegiance.

Y'shtola "Died" like 4 times. Zenos has "Died" like twice now, Asahi died and came back to life, The only actual permanent deaths I can think of are Moenbryda, Papalymo, Ilberd, and Valens, and Valens is a side character.
Asahi also died. Zenos died once. Y'shtola had several near-deaths, but never died as far as I know.

Also, FFXIV's story is filled with consequences, death is just not the only consequence there is. Those many consequences are what're leading us to Endwalker. Without consequences, there would be no main story that would cover the entirety of FFXIV from 1.0 to 6.0.