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

[CrownySuccubus]

When Thancred discovered the reflections would be abandoned, that would have been the perfect moment for him to show some backbone and aggressively lose his mind in protest. Full on Jack Garland. Instead, he just stood there and took it. A common trend we're seeing these days, I know.

Umm, but he already knew. He asked the Watcher what would happened to the reflections and the Watcher confirms that they would also be destroyed. Then, just before they leave the moon, the Scions have already made up their minds that their primary focus is going to be on stopping the Final Days than running from it. Thancred flat out asks you to talk to Ryne before you go look for Elidibus and to tell her the truth and ask for her insights. She likewise gives you her blessing to focus on stopping the Final Days and says she believes in all of you. Thancred having a temper tantrum because the First would be abandoned would be redundant to what we'd already established and, furthermore, would have been absolutely pointless because there's no way for anyone except the Ascians and the WOL to travel between the worlds anyway.

But it literally gets rid of any nuance the scions had in ShB. Yshtola was skeptical of Hydaelyn,Thancred fought so much to save Ryne, yet here we are in EW, there’s no more skepticism of Hydaelyn from Yshtola, Thancred is somehow fine with a plan that would end in Ryne being killed, he says nothing about Minfilia being used as a vessel for hydaelyn and thrown away, and apparently everyone is fine with Krile serving as another vessel as well? Like come on now, this is 100% maximum bias towards Hydaelyn.

Minfilia chose to sacrifice herself to save the first. Krile flat out says multiple times that she chose to be used on the occasions Hydaelyn did it.

Again, I don't like Hydaelyn in EW either, but you guys are reaching too hard to find things to be angry about.

Both Elder Primals ended up being fought and killed, though.

Both out of unfortunate necessity, though. I'm not against the fact that you had to fight and kill the elder primals. I would have been against yet another "Only Mankind is the true arbiter of morality and destiny!" message.

We learn that Zodiark did nothing wrong and was falsely painted as a villain. The Scions didn't even bother trying to defend him in any meaningful capacity and despite it being revealed that Zodiark was the true saviour of both past and present Etheirys, he's barely mentioned again.

Teaming up with the demonic looking guy who is actually benevolent would have been more satisfying to me than being forced to stick with the delusional self proclaimed 'supreme deity' who slaughtered her own people.

I mean, Zodiark was a skin suit for Fandaniel the one time you see him, soooo....