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

[Lauront]

I'm a Chrono Trigger fan that has been waiting 27 years for a proper sequel. (No, not that one. I said a proper sequel.)

I almost played Chrono Cross but my PS3 decided it didn't like the disc for some reason, so I had to just give up early on. With that said, I also read up on CT's story (spoilered myself intentionally, but I still intend to play the Steam version), and it did get me pretty pumped to see something based off Lavos at the root of the Final Days.