Endwalker's message (spoilers!)

[Hysorn]

Endwalker definitely is behind ShB for me, I think the only moment I really felt anything close to crying was during the talk with Venat on the bridge, and it was more of a lump in my throat than anything where in ShB I came close to tearing up quite a few times.

The message of the story makes sense, wanting to be perfect will always disappoint you in the end because you can't, that is true, we also know that the more comfortable we get, the higher chances we have of developing depression, but that's is just our monkey, tribalistic brains trying to work out life where most of us don't really have to fight for survival day after day and don't have to fear our neighbors invading our lands and killing our tribe, afterall we didn't evolve to just sit and watch TV all day, we evolved to survive. Did every civilization in the galaxy evolved just like humans in the FFXIV universe?
Still though, the story felt way more ARR levels of anime-plot than Heavensward or Shadowbringers.

I don't know, I can't say it really resonated with me all that much, not even if I compare it to the suffering Covid has brought me and my family.