Neither of you played entirely through FFXIV from scratch to now... and or lack content severe... Endwalker is definately the best expansion to date, HW is not even coming close, nor SHB.... if you really have followed the story and not just claim to be having followed it, then you would know, you get a lot of the missing links to grand schemes finally solved and you get to work with it, also if you see the world our world Earth right now, alot of parallels weaved in as well, as was with all the other expansion, and as it is I do and did fancy seeing alot of the old crews again.... getting parts of the story revived inside my head and everything.

Endwalker > ALL

This is why you don't use jump potions, unless you actually are into the story, which is the main reason for the entire expansions, whenever it get to it.