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

[AnaviAnael]

Well let’s see. Within 3 patches 2 unsundered are offed. Elidibus got a total of about 2 patches since he wasn’t really featured in 5.1. Was used for random ff1 fanservice, had a horribly written plot tied to him(random brain dementia), only had one bgm for his fight vs every other .3 fight having at least 3 themes barring ramuh. Then in endwalker he gets a 5 minute cameo and gets killed off. For being someone who was built up since the beginning as this manipulative cunning person and we see very little of that in all actuality it was beyond a disappointment.

This is basically how I felt. I'd also like to add that I thought he would have ended up being a bigger threat once it was revealed that he is the heart of Zodiark. (Him serving that function felt like it had minimal impact on the story overall.) Instead he was killed off in the next patch.

[KizuyaKatogami]

This is basically how I felt. I'd also like to add that I thought he would have ended up being a bigger threat once it was revealed that he is the heart of Zodiark. (Him serving that function felt like it had minimal impact on the story overall.) Instead he was killed off in the next patch.

Yep this is exactly my point. You would think the heart of one of the two main deities/god-like primals would have more of a presence but he was just killed off within a patch, and we didn’t even really get to see him utilize said primal’s abilities that he was aspected to. It’s why it just leaves such a bitter taste in my mouth that after all that, they had a chance this expansion to fix that but instead he got a 5 minute cameo and got killed off. And now the only part of him we have to interact with is his past self.