I'm right there with you. 80% of Endwalker story just completely bored or annoyed me and I've genuinely never had to force myself through an expansion before.

Follow this npc and don't get caught, they're going to frigging see you anyway once they get to their destination but there's a point to this we swear. Aww look at the cute kawaii bunnies aren't they adorable? No, their entire story arc is pointless when you literally know everything they're going on about is useless filler because you're going to save the world anyway. Over glorified fashion report. Oh noooo it's the cliche all of our friends are disappearing but is always totally obvious they'll come back immediately because who else would you have for the trust dungeon otherwise? /s. Legit I didn't think they could make Zenos more of an irrelevant useless clown than he was in SB but man they did it. Plz care about generic NPC no.2870 that you just met 5 minutes ago dying when we haven't had the balls to kill off a scion since 2017. Ascians? Nah mate, goth loli pigeon for all the lolicons out there and another generic gigantic goth lady for people to unironically call mommy. Killed two 'birds' with one stone, haha get it?

My biggest issue with it though? Our character has never had such a central role with so many lines in the story before and still its completely mute, ruins the entire scene.