I find the game lore to be interesting. As an outsider looking in, it seems like there are quite a few people who have built up personal identities around being 'lore scholars', which is no doubt a time consuming exercise. The problem with having so much investment in lore is that it becomes deeply upsetting to be wrong. I think that Endwalker in particular brought this out, as a culmination of everything from ARR. It's not just about new and casual fans of the game who are super excited after just completing the MSQ blindly throwing out crackpot theories that drown out your carefully studied research of 10 years. Even the game's own script writers are now creating new lore in bad faith, by writing stories that the forum consensus could not predict back in ARR! They're clearly interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.

The writers clearly had fun with the story. Does it matter that a character literally jumped the shark this expansion? It's probably better for your sanity to keep things lighthearted and less dogmatic. This is a Final Fantasy game, after all. But yeah, I'm glad that forum posts don't really communicate steely glares easily. It makes it so much easier to drop a Loporrit joke into the middle of a heated plot continuity argument.