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

[aveyond-dreams]

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I'm not apologizing for telling the individuals who wanted Summoner to stay as or revert to a discount poison mage to leave the job, because that was a design flaw so fundamental and contradictory to the job's core fantasy and gameplay loop. Some of those individuals argued that literal glitches were "complexity" and that working around those was supposed to act as a skill check on the playerbase despite that working nowhere near as intended. I am not sorry for anything I said. Complexity needs to come from mechanics that are functional and fit the job fantasy, and a dark themed Necromancer/Time Mage should have been added ages ago to satisfy that niche instead of Summoner. Goodness, even I am about to drop the job again because I'm tired of summoning the same primals from ARR with no Shiva or Alexander coming until 7.0 at the earliest.

All I know is in terms of story the writers who did the work I like were entrusted with the future of the mainline series for FFXVI but for obvious reasons that game isn't going to satisfy mmo players nor will it keep me as a single-player hooked the same way this game does. It isn't for everyone. I know that FFXIV can do better than whatever it's currently doing, and seeing this game double down on the subjective humour is frustrating.