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

[PawPaw]

I haven't watched the LL but I am struggling to remember the Lambs of Dalamud at all. Vague memories of killing humans in robes when I was extremely low level...I assume that was them. Why go all the way back to such an obscure story offshoot from 2.0? I thought the objective behind ditching an expansion and rushing the story to this point was to clean the slate and leave all of this behind for the sake of the brand new start with their own original content?

[Skyborne]

I haven't watched the LL but I am struggling to remember the Lambs of Dalamud at all. Vague memories of killing humans in robes when I was extremely low level...I assume that was them. Why go all the way back to such an obscure story offshoot from 2.0? I thought the objective behind ditching an expansion and rushing the story to this point was to clean the slate and leave all of this behind for the sake of the brand new start with their own original content?

They're the Dalamud-worshippers that had a headquarters in Northern Thanalan, with some FATEs revolving around them. I believe they make an appearance in one of the Amdapor (?) dungeons as well, and were involved with Voidsent. Funnily enough, we can even wear their cowl... which should be noted are blood red by default, but the ones in the trailer just look dark/black. Unless my eyes are deceiving me, anyway. Could just be generic cultist people for all we know and not necessarily the Lambs.