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

[ReynTime]

User A: Points out what they believe is a contradiction/inconsistency.
User B willingly confronts User A's comment: No it's not a contradiction
User A simply responds to defend his stance: Yes it is. Here's evidence. Where is yours?
User B refusing to admit they brought this upon themselves: Oh my gahd WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED about this.

But now? It gives us less, way less than ever before, and has given itself the complete liberty to discard everything that would give its story any impact.

Ascians? Gone.
Garlemald? Bastardized.
Stakes for our heroes and setting? 6 feet under.
Voidsent? Just people who gotta get their world right (by reverting it to how it was before :^)).
Zenos? Maybe dead, but where's the minion?

I've said this numerous times but for years it felt like Yoshida's team just wanted to get rid of everything built from the lore that preceded his era (1.0) to replace with their far more simplistic and less nuanced style of storytelling.
And I'll throw more to the list you started:

The Black Shroud's ever present fear of the Elementals? Gone because Calamity. Who cares if The Shroud had literally nothing going on since 2.0.
Piracy in La Noscea? Gone because moving speech and piracy bad.
Corruption and clashing factions in Thanalan? Gone because no one left in the writing team knows how to write it so all you get is "Lolorito bad but we need his help".
Dark past of Ul'dah? Sanitized.
Primal tempering? Gone, because magical flying pigs.