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

[Teraq]

It's okay to not like it, but to act as if your opinion is somehow representative of everyone when it isn't even close is bad form.

I know something that's even worse form: quoting someone then misrepresenting what they've said to build your little strawman.

At no point in that paragraph did Rulakir "act as if her opinion is somehow representative of everyone". She simply said "players", then "I've heard this has increasingly become a thing".

Try again.

Oh and by the way, we know. Why do you think dissent has congregated in this one specific place of the FFXIV social ecosystem? Do you think we are somehow unaware of what the vast majority thinks? How could we even be when the community exhibits this much toxic positivity? We've all been on Reddit and Twitter.

"She really was an Ancient, huh?"

I love how Endwalker does not merely tell without showing you – no, it is actively telling while showing you something else entirely on the side, then pretending you didn't just see that.