What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

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From what I see right now, recent WoW refuges are expecting typical story flow like WoW: a big bad evil dude, someone important dies, an epic battle against this evil dude.
They will be disappointed.
For normal FF franchise players, this is an epic story telling.

Those who expecting wow style of lack in-depth character growth will never like Endwalker, that is just how it is

I read books as part of my profession and I've been with the Final Fantasy franchise for over twenty years. I have written a book about the series, in pre publication. I do not have nearly as much to say about World of Warcraft. Your argument here is simply false.

Endwalker has some great moments, but simply does not hang together very well as a story. There are a number of reasons for this, but I'll list a few.

-Fandaniel simply isn't a very good character. He had a chance to be, but he wasn't. Unfortunately, not only is he a bad villain, but he's a villain who has managed to also be Amon, and also be the character that essentially brought paradise down in flames, Hermes. In all the twisting confabulation of what the three different characters wanted, not a single one of them got anything they wanted. They were utterly different characters with different agendas, and yet contorted to be the same, and then ultimately scrubbed out in service of some bigger plot, so that everything they did and represented was a waste of time. It is simply not very intriguing and leaves a person a bit annoyed.

-Meteion simply isn't a very good character. She had a chance to be, but they pulled every punch with her. They made her a victim with dubious control over what she was doing. By having her appear as the starbird and beg the Endsinger to relent in the final battle, they robbed us of the one emotional outlet we had of dealing with it through gameplay, and put the players in the backseat for the final resolution, which was a long cutscene of forgiveness and turning the other cheek. Compare it to Emet-Selch, who dies screaming about the light that sundered the world, when he fails to kill you in his final ATE attack. And then, defeated, he accepts his death by asking you to remember that they lived. That is a satisfying structure for conflict resolution. Meteion represents no conflict, and no resolution. She already doesn't want to fight you before the last battle begins.

-Zenos is wasted. The finale with him is pretty good. I liked the final duel. But putting him in play would have meant actually killing someone at some point. Oh well.

EDIT: And since it's not very clear from my post, I'll say this. Endwalker is miles above any storytelling Blizzard ever managed in World of Warcraft.