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

[Rulakir]

Honestly, sometimes I think they jam so much time travel into FFXIV because it leaves the door open for potential recycle of villains, but from another timeline.

This is the WoW method and people were tired of it. :P Personally, I have no desire to defeat Hades again, I think we've watched him suffer and die enough (for a fan favorite character no less). I'm also not keen on 'saving' the 8UC as I'd like there to be at least one timeline where the Ancients (hopefully) succeed. Thought we were going to get that in EW but, silly me, such things only work for the WoL/Scions!

If the goal is to just 'get Emet back', that's real easy. Just have him be our Ardbert-esque ghostly guide on one of the shards, ideally one where he founded another empire.

I do wonder if there's a chance we'll get a partial rejoining at some point just because they contemplated doing it in ShB.

[Raoabolic]

This is the WoW method and people were tired of it. :P Personally, I have no desire to defeat Hades again, I think we've watched him suffer and die enough (for a fan favorite character no less). I'm also not keen on 'saving' the 8UC as I'd like there to be at least one timeline where the Ancients (hopefully) succeed. Thought we were going to get that in EW but, silly me, such things only work for the WoL/Scions!

If the goal is to just 'get Emet back', that's real easy. Just have him be our Ardbert-esque ghostly guide on one of the shards, ideally one where he founded another empire.

I do wonder if there's a chance we'll get a partial rejoining at some point just because they contemplated doing it in ShB.

What are you talking about? The Caverns of Time was an excellent idea! :^)