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

[DevonEllwood]

Will post my filled out version later on, was wondering what others would do with it in the meantime

Before 5.3 I would have filled some of it out. Now, the only ones who get any stars would be Ryne because she isn't associated with everything I hate about the story now. Everyone else either has no stars or negative stars, especially the children. Their whole family is terrible.

And speaking of Sharlyan in the above post, how did we go from sending out assassins to basically Hogwarts?

I do suspect a little (?) tampering from the Director might have caused some of the issues I am having with EW, it was disturbing to read that the story was re-worked and only finished with days to spare.
I am hoping that the post EW quests will be more interesting and will do what the post SB quests did for that expansion

I remember a statement by Yoshida saying Ishikawa had a lot to do so he had to step in to help. I will attribute all the weird Venat stuff to him, seeing as Ishikawa went on to write about the sundering in a different game. I really hope she sticks around though. I don't like everything about her writing, I hate the plot armour of the scions, but it still has more positives than negatives to me. It seems like Yoshida is aware of people not liking the story considering even Japanese players seem to not be fully happy with it. My only hope is that they learn from what they did and don't do it again. Don't ram multiple expansions together, take your time whether you like what your writing team came up with or not, and stop shoving the scions front and center.