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

[Theodric]

It's really weird how some posters like to enter a thread specifically for critical feedback and then question why critical feedback is being posted in said thread. Even stranger is the habit of pretending as if a thread of 859 pages and counting hasn't already had the posters frequenting the thread outline their positions and concerns a great many times already.

I think the simple fact that the following linked thread was made in response to an obvious bad faith comment ridiculing those posting here says it all:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...y-in-Dawntrail

I don't doubt that you're genuinely concerned that the forum is being used for its intended primary purpose of leaving feedback related to the game. I've also seen enough of your posts relating to lore discussions to know full well that you can be linked specific sources only to dismiss them only to double down on rhetoric such as this:

So I get how the idea of Venat NOT being a bad person is hard to take from people that had all but assumed their headcanon they came up with during ShB was that Venat was going to turn out to secretly be the Big Bad this whole time...and when the story said "No, she actually is/was a genuinely good person, just faced with horrible options", refused to accept that.

I DID say, as a "what-if"/"think about it this way" that the ANCIENTS were basically becoming Nazis. But unless you are one of the Ancients, that doesn't apply to you, now does it?

I don't get it, but I get some people want their anti-hero/shade of gray world, and that's fine. You can have that headcanon, and I shall leave you to it. Just don't accuse other people of living in headcanon, being "simps", etc, who refuse to subscribe to your own.

Thankfully pattern recognition is a thing and it's not difficult to note how often it turns out to be the case where the same posters who feign concern over the mere existence of critical feedback towards the story always turn out to have the most bad faith take on the Ancients/Garleans but readily bend over backwards to do damage control for Hydaelyn.