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

[Carin-Eri]

I mean, that's kind of an issue in and of itself. The trailer and all the lead up before EW was about "The final days are here!" with the trailer showing utter chaos everywhere. Within the actual story? Sky turns red twice and for a brief minute there's a ton of monsters but don't worry it'll pass so you can have no sense or urgency while you go on to do menial tasks to pad the run time out.

The trailer/cinematic also places a great deal of emphasis on the Moon - but when it came to it we didn't really spend all that much time there.

[Kaonis]

The trailer/cinematic also places a great deal of emphasis on the Moon - but when it came to it we didn't really spend all that much time there.

The moon was quite a disappointment. It was mostly just to just waste more time with the lopporits, when they could have at least had it dealing with Zodiark and the final days of the Ascians. Instead they did what I consider possibly the most egregious fault of EW, they just killed off Zodiark unceremoniously. Zodiark, the big bad they had spent nearly a decade building towards, the big bad they added intrigue to in ShB, and we don't ever meet Zodiark. Zodiark is not a character, it's a simple plot device that gets possessed by Fandaniel for us to have a boss fight so they can sweep him away for the "real big bad all along".

And for the record I'm not salty about Zodiark not being the big bad guy. I'm salty we got NOTHING of substance with Zodiark after all this time and don't even get to meet the real Zodiark. It is such wasted potential all to just be a subversion.