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

[Lauront]

I doubt she set out to write him that way, where he brings nothing or very little to the table. We've speculated in the past as to whether the story being compressed from 1-2 further expansions into 6.0 potentially compromised its writing, and I think it may have, but that would not reflect well on her boss, if true.

[jameseoakes]

I doubt she set out to write him that way, where he brings nothing or very little to the table. We've speculated in the past as to whether the story being compressed from 1-2 further expansions into 6.0 potentially compromised its writing, and I think it may have, but that would not reflect well on her boss, if true.

I took from the media stuff they've done that he is very much the character she wanted to write, which I find...concerning