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

[Lauront]

Yes, if you go on sites like reddit (and others), it is indeed the minority view. I've seen more criticism filtering through to places like Twitter, MMO-champ, 4chan and yes, even reddit, and it's good that it was enough to get them to address it in the Q&A to some degree, but many look past or did not notice many of the issues many here didn't like. I think they were able, through the post-Elpis cutscene, to obscure a lot of the intricacies SHB had put into place, and a lot of the stuff giving a fuller image of the ancient world is relegated to the Elpis sidequests.

The issue for me is it's just about decent as an MMO - take the story aspect away, and I'm left with that, which is fairly "take it or leave it", rather than anything compelling to me.