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

[KizuyaKatogami]

Ive found myself thinking about this Yoshi p quote from back in ShB.

“We don’t like adlib in terms of like, ‘Oh, this character is going to go or this character is going to die.’ It’s not random, either. At the same time, yes, people might notice that those in the core cast may not have died over the course of the story,” he explains. Since Final Fantasy XIV constantly depicts wars, conflicts, and battles, he says it’s “unrealistic to not have any sort of sacrifices even on the ally side. So I mean, I don’t mean to scare you… this is not, by any means a threat of any sort, but don’t get too comfortable knowing that, ‘Oh, these characters are safe’ because you might be in for quite a shock.”

Nice to see this was just yet another lie by him and nothing ever came from this whatsoever.Wonder if this is just more proof of some last minute changes.