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

[Rulakir]

This isn't a contradiction, you're just being dishonest.

The dishonesty here is EN localization if this line is not consistent in other languages. I can't be expected to be multilingual because the EN translators suck at their job.

Having compared some scenes with someone who plays in FR, it seems EN missed out on a lot of context. Nothing narrative breaking, but certainly within the realm of "that seemed important". Are we now coming across dialog that's not even remotely similar between languages? Because that is a problem.

I was incredibly disappointed to see him reduced down to what felt like little more than Emet's adoring, self-deprecating sidekick who had almost no purpose or perspective outside of Emet and Azem, and only seemed to be there to emphasise how great and wonderful they are. Suddenly, the Chief of the Bureau of the Architect - you know, the overseer of the institution that rules over all of creation magicks - became the weaker, lesser character happily dwarfed by his friends trope that permeates Japanese media, whose sole redeeming ability was his innate soul sight. Paired with Emet's intense tsundere-ification, there was just a distinct lack of depth that I had been hoping for since the end of SHB. That aside with the WoL in particular trying to hammer home what a good guy Emet was felt so shallow and forced, and followed EW's unfortunate trend of telling, not showing that SHB for the most part seemed to avoid so well.

I can't disagree with that assessment, although, I still adored Hythlodaeus (and have since ShB). I love the 'trio' and how all 3 are presented as having deeply cared for one another to the extent that they had planned to return to the star together. I thought that was beautiful.

I would say hopefully Hythlodaeus gets a chance to shine later, but Yoshi-P seems to want to wash his hands of everything Ancient. I have seen several fan made comics where he is depicted as working closely with the Convocation and otherwise a 'big deal' in his position as Chief of the Bureau of the Architect.