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

[Lauront]

To be fair, while I can't say it inherently enthuses me as a concept, if they want to work with it to also showcase the downside of being more readily able to manipulate it, i.e. being more susceptible to it, and avoid retroactively using it to dunk on the ancients, I'd be cool with that, especially if it comes up as an issue in a more sundered shard. They did show this with how the revived Final Days were highly detrimental to the sundered as they directly affected them, but then it was over quite soon. So provided it's not just used to prop up the sundered further, it could be interesting.