Everything involving Meteion really is a blight on the story, imo. The expansion's story isn't bad for the most part, but the moment you go back into the past it all just kind of shits its self and any time she comes back into the plot that stank makes its hard return. I don't care about her at all because she comes literally out of nowhere in the back half of the story, forcibly demands the spotlight despite having nothing of value to actually say and her cheesy jumpscare 2000's flash game horror aesthetic is just...bad? It's especially galling when we kill basically every other antagonist in the first half of the story and the game spins its wheels for a little bit going "OH NO WHY DIDN'T THE CRISIS STOP" only to reveal that this thing we have no way of knowing existed was secretly responsible for everything this entire time, retroactively making the *entire story* up until now feel just a little bit dumber. Every bit of plot revolving around Hermes and Meteion feels like it was written to rule on convenience and circumstance. Sure was cool that Hermes invented a memory blasting magic machine no one could bypass or avoid except you, sure was convenient Azem spent the next forever just...not bothering to try and fix that memory hole issue. Sure was cool that everyone forgot the space birds existed completely and utterly until just in time for you to go back into the past and learn they existed. By writing Meteion into the story like this, now it feels like every character has slightly less agency and slightly dumber motivation.

Also finishing up the storyline with another series of fakeout deaths was just kind of impactless at this point.