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

[Brinne]

I was remembering that when I was making my post but couldn't find the source for that quote.

But I would like to think that sometime between that interview and Endwalker that part of the story had changed because it didn't seem like we got exactly what he said we'd get.

I sort of feel like Yoshida was taken off guard in general by the degree of sympathy people had for the Ancients after Shadowbringers, and had a hard time understanding it, which... basically continued by his repeated surprise about the same thing that he expressed in the interviews for Endwalker. That being said, Yoshida did also mentioned in that MogTalk radio bit (IIRC?) that they only even made the decision that Venat=Hydaelyn very late in the writing process, so one can only imagine the full scope of the Huge Mess and Last Minute Scrambling.