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

[Rulakir]

I have to wonder if there was a divergence here in Ishikawa's sentiments on the matter, and Yoshi's.

I've said since the beginning that EW does not feel like the spiritual successor of ShB. It truly seems like someone told Ishikawa that Venat/Hydaelyn needed to be good and everything had to be rewritten to the extent of throwing Ancient society as a whole under the bus to make the her and the sundering seem more justifiable. There's also the issue that Ishikawa thought she'd have 1-2 more expansions to develop the story and instead was having to rewrite it up until 2 days before the deadline.

As far as I know, it's Ishikawa, Oda, and Yoshi-P who work on the story? I don't know enough about Oda. Yoshi-P's history of being confused by audience reaction isn't confidence building though.

Edit: I've never understood humanity's obsession with life. Natural selection doesn't exist for us, if someone born is capable of life then we will force them to live even if they will be unable of doing anything without assistance, if someone is dying they must be kept alive until they absolutely can't anymore even if they're barely functional and in indescribable amounts of pain. No other creature is treated this way. We euthanize animals for far less and consider it a kindness. Humans are expected to grab hold of and appreciate every second of life whether they want to or not and, if they don't want to, it must be because they're mentally ill.