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

[Kozh]

All this math is really getting in the way of the power of friendship and camaraderie and hope for tomorrow that actually defeated the ascians.

Seriously how can you stand thinking about fiction in terms of power levels and force multiplers? I do not understand this way of thinking at all.

I seriously do hope this is just a joke/sarcasm.