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

[Rulakir]

I didn't shed any tears after presuming it was going to be sob fest judging from the many reviewers who had cried buckets and needed time to 'process'....i must have a cold heart or something as i never got the feels and didn't need a day or two to 'process' anything.

I'm a hair trigger crier and the only parts that got me sobbing were the Emet & Hythlodaeus scenes. There were a couple of other misty-eyed moments, but nothing else hit as hard. The only thing I needed to process was why the same person responsible for ShB and the alternate timeline decided to go with an awful time loop in EW where we didn't get to save anyone.

So ultimately, Zenos helps save the world and also gets the final say in what your character is. Naturally, we can't turn down the prospect of a duel, lest we set him back to his pre-Alisaie mentality or just let him walk away Scott-free for all he's done. But we don't even get the option to tell him off or punish him in some way beyond making him slightly disappointed that he lost again and somewhat reflective on the fact that he never really cared about people because Varis was a bad father. He more or less gets what he wants again and gets to pass away (maybe) on his terms.

This was unfortunately consistent throughout EW. I guess the writers/devs had a vision for the WoL and their journey that they wanted the player to have too, so you weren't allowed to act in any way outside of that vision and your character was manipulated through animation and expression to further force that perspective.