I've lost my patience with it. Many of those who come to this thread QQing about an echo chamber are ones I recognize from other threads who rarely, if ever, engage in good faith discussions and instead seem to like to stir the pot and argue for the sake of it. It's why I can't take comments about 'belittlement' seriously. Most of them are on my block list, but I still see the posts if they're quoted.

As for EW, it continues to live rent free in my head because I can't make peace with something I loved being turned into something I hated. I keep hoping (probably in vain) there's some way to salvage it. Despite my feelings about the story, I enjoyed other aspects of FFXIV and like the direction it's going as far as features, but EW decimated my desire to keep playing. Talking to others is cathartic, but only to a certain extent as the story itself remains unchanged. I'm hoping 6.2 provides something to change my mind and doesn't manage to make things worse.