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

[Lauront]

cool ideas

I like what you outlined a lot better than what we got, so it's a mixture of enjoyment and sadness reading this. I'd probably want to see an even-handed approach to Garlemald, i.e. also showing the provinces that were either unchanged or benefited from its rule, much like Bozja, rather than it just being a case of unadulterated "empire bad", and still retain elements of what they did with EW for the Garleans, but otherwise, I think this would be a much more satisfactory and better paced trajectory to me.