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

[Raoabolic]

Despite Dynamis being the key that is allegedly everywhere, undetectable, and more abundant than the much-stronger Aether, we never actually really learn how to manipulate it. The Sundered never feel as though they're more equipped to deal with the issue of Meteion other than being told "you just are", and ironically they are presented as much weaker than their Unsundered counterparts. The aetherical density of the Ancients provides them innate resistance to the Dynamis / blasphemy-inducing effects of Meteion's song, but the Endsong easily smothers and snuffs out the aether of the Sundered, resulting in complete and total soul erasure. Go, suffering.

The more I think about it, the more dynamis fees like the Midichlorians of XIV. That's weird, lol.

[Rosenstrauch]

The more I think about it, the more dynamis fees like the Midichlorians of XIV. That's weird, lol.

It's funny, 'cause things like Dynamis are fairly common in anime and Japanese stories, and to a lesser extent western ones inspired by such. Think Undertale's "Determination", or "Spiral Power" from Gurren Lagann. The difference is that their respective "Believe in yourself!" magic systems were built into the setting from the beginning, while Dynamis is rather haphazardly thrown in.

I'm not sure if I want the writers to expand on Dynamis, ignore it going forward, or to dismiss it outright. Like, going "Actually Dynamis is completely unusable, and everyone who appears to use Dynamis was actually just using Aether". No matter what they do, I don't expect them to make it a worthwhile addition to the setting. But it's already poisoned the well, so to speak. You can try to take the poison out, but someone in the village still drank it and died.

[Raoabolic]

I'm not sure if I want the writers to expand on Dynamis, ignore it going forward, or to dismiss it outright. Like, going "Actually Dynamis is completely unusable, and everyone who appears to use Dynamis was actually just using Aether".

I would laugh hard at a retcon like that. I do agree that it's in a lot of shonen stuff (Gee, I wonder why EW felt like I was reading Shonen jump. lol) but the whole Dynamis thing feels a lot like they are "jumping the shark" ala Star Wars: Ep 1 in the sense they tried to explain stuff that really didn't need explaining. In hindsight I really hope we are not getting Ep2 and 3 for 7.0 and 8.0. Now I gone and depressed myself, lol. :/