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

[CrownySuccubus]

Why you still feel the need to press for discussion on this subject is a mystery.

I'm not the one who brought it up. You did.

As long as you say things I don't agree with, or demonstrably false on a public forum, I will continue to debunk it. You yourself may feel free to stop at any time.

In any case, there are hardly any games that take place in Australia or Africa at all. Possibly because there isn't much interest in visiting those regions, regardless of whatever the twitter crowd is pushing for these days.

Yes, let's totally pretend that lack of a subject matter is entirely due to the invisible hand of the market, with no other sociopolitical causes. By the same token, let's also pretend that subject saturation in media is due entirely to viability or success, and not the laziness of publishers; I'm sure the mass saturation of schlock slasher films in the 80s, the abundance of generic WW2 shooters in the early 2000s, and the continued rise of tedious open world sandboxes is completely due to consumer demand and no other reasons.

Whether you choose to deny it or not, Ishgard is responsible for giving players like me a home, Garlemald is responsible for giving players like me an antagonistic force to be interested in

That's all fine. Just to let you know, adding more varied locales into the game isn't going to make Ishgard or Garlemald, or whatever other settings you currently like, go away.

and the Final Fantasy Australia game you seem to champion is in no way equivalent to a world as rich as Spira, it simply cannot be with the current way of handling such locales.

This sounds like a completely nonsensical and arbitrary argument which easily falls apart -- not the least of which because Spira is a place that, while inspired by a specific culture, was still completely created by human imagination. There is zero reasonable argument that the human imagination which was responsible for Spira, or any other locale that you seem to love, could not do the same for a place set in Australia or the surrounding environment of South-East Asia/Polynesia, or any other location on Earth. As has been stated numerous times, you have this ridiculous argument that Australia, which is part of the larger Oceanic region, is a monolithic geography and culture while failing to afford Europe the same oversimplified dismissal.