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

[Caurcas]

If this is happening over and over, then that means there's a genuine problem with the story.

Like I said, I've been playing a lot of Devil's Advocate in this thread for Venat, but I'm not blind to the fact that a lot of what's wrong with the story is directly tied to her and the plot's obsession with making her right. Even my main gripe with the story (The amounts of suffering fetishism, to the point of making laughable plot points like an advanced Alien race that kills themselves because of "perfection") only exists because the writers need to claim Venat was "right".

And I agree there are issues with the writing. XIV has a good world, but has struggled with narrative for awhile. Far before EW.