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

[Carin-Eri]

This is what I find most odd in Endwalker they really didn't seem to actually be telling the story they intended to.

Agreed.

To me at least, it feels like they had intended to do something more with regard to the moon. There was a lot of emphasis on it in the Endwalker trailer and cinematic:
- The implication that there were Blasphemy's on the moon.
- The 'flier' which shows what I assume became the Ragnarok
- The Watcher's Palace feels very underutilized - possibly because they'd intended for us to have more to do there?
- Personally, it feels as the Loporrit's delaying tactics had some basis in reality

And overall it feels as if there was supposed to be more for us to do there.