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

[Rulakir]

I think it just goes to show he and I (and I suspect some others here too) are on entirely different wavelengths.

Yeah, I don't understand this at all. Not only do the sundered have a callous disregard for life (they did not pass Hermes' test), but so does our society. Comparatively, yes, Elpis appeared heavenly.

Not to mention that creations are made of aether and returned to aether. These aren't creatures that were born into the world and then slaughtered, in which case they'd still be no different than the sundered or us. If anything, part of what bothered me with Hermes before he went full tilt was that the lykones were indiscriminately killing and he didn't want to destroy them. As I recall, they had tried to work with them before but they always ended up violent. I thought, how can he claim to care about life, but want to keep the lykones when they're a threat to it?

At this point, I think if FFXIV doesn't have a QA team for the storylines they need to form one. I'm tired of hearing about how he's surprised by audience reaction to things.

Given that he was also confused by people wanting stubble for male characters...I honestly believe he isn't getting any meaningful feedback from the official forum.

Seriously? Ugh. I know this thread is somewhat infamous now for being 200+ pages of EW criticism. I can only hope they have someone on the team reading it.