Endwalker was "meh" (for reasons other than technical issues)

[Kozh]

which also fit kinda brilliantly for how it would be the downfall of the Ancients, they didn't exactly have heavy emotions like people normally do, like they were stifled.

This is just untrue. In ShB the writer themselves told us that the Ancients are the same as us. Able to feel happiness, sadness, anger, pain. They're capable of crying.

That's why some people disagree with the concept of dynamis being introduced in EW, because it's not a simple "the Ancients doesn't have emotions", but because they have to make a convoluted reason as to why the Ancients were unable to harness dynamis.