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

[Striker44]

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.

That's where role-playing comes in while playing a role-playing game. Personally, I felt the use of it for Vanaspati in particular was awesome and heightened the tension of that dungeon as I experienced it for the first time. There was also the sense of "who knows where this might happen next" that wouldn't be there if the sky simply turned red everywhere at once (not to mention it's completely explained via the currents vs. stagnation of certain types of aether in various parts of the world).

[AwesomeJr44]

That's where role-playing comes in while playing a role-playing game. Personally, I felt the use of it for Vanaspati in particular was awesome and heightened the tension of that dungeon as I experienced it for the first time. There was also the sense of "who knows where this might happen next" that wouldn't be there if the sky simply turned red everywhere at once (not to mention it's completely explained via the currents vs. stagnation of certain types of aether in various parts of the world).

That sounds less like roleplaying and more like doing the writers' jobs for them by taking the loosely connected plot points they gave us and filling in the blanks with headcanons. The players aren't supposed to be the writers for the MSQ.