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

[Skyborne]

We'd better be able to do something for poor Themis or I may actually evolve into a ravenous three-headed monster whose only purpose is chaos and destruction.

100% this, also, I'm way ahead of you. Careful not to stand in the cone of my Phyrric Breath. And don't call me ugly, Venat!

Back on topic, I enjoyed EW but I wished the Garlemald section had alot more badassery fight scenes to it instead of it being a peace core mission, I mean it's Garlemald, not the salvation army.

But that guy blowing his brains out was pretty bad ass, he was a cool Legatus or whatever his title was, I would have liked to seen more of him, but overall I'm happy we got to finally go to Garlemald.

Quintus, yes. What a beautiful dream we all shared...

Also still baffling was Alphinaud's behavior in that Garlemald section, and what I saw was a backslide of his character development back into the super-naive 'peace and wuv!!!!! all together now!!!!' Alphinaud with only slightly less arrogance. Did he really think he and all of Eorzea could just waltz right in and have every half-starved Garlean in the frozen wastes just throw themselves at them for help and salvation? A big welcome party? Wasn't he around the area of Garlemald all throughout Shadowbringers and had some interaction? Wouldn't he have known their frosty, savage-untrusting outlook at least from Sharlayan textbooks?