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

[Vyrerus]

What are you talking about?

No, what are you talking about? You're adding information that wasn't given. They did not talk about how or where Kairos was implemented routinely. They did not say that researchers just magick it out of the air. Like this is literally just the weakest form of foreshadowing, "Oh hey, by the way, we have a secret memory wiping device." To which Emet-selch then implies that not even Pashtarot knows about it, and that's kind of that Convocation seat's wheelhouse. And that makes two Convocation members unapprised of the goings on of Elpis, which really just points to another thing in Endwalker that beggars belief.

Implying Emet-selch could...

The dampening field of Ktsis itself is also a poorly thought out plot contrivance. It is supposed to suppress all aetheric power for the creations inside of Ktsis when the emergency is invoked, and they go on to add that anybody or thing that's not the Elpis Staff will have their powers dampened. OK. Sure. Doesn't make sense that they'd have it dampen Convocation superiors, but ok! An excuse for the WoL to have to party up with Emet, Venat, and Hyth. Cool. Except it should dampened the lionshare of the WoL's power which come from Aether, not Dynamis, and so they should be a complete wienie.

Forgiving that, we still beat Hermes at his transformed best, bringing him to his knees. He should have been put in restraints immediately, instead of having Emet-selch monologue while he caught his second wind. Hermes even turns his back on the four of them. Bumps on a log, all of them. The entire time that Hermes speaks and the Meteion speaks and starts walking forward.

Point being, the cutscene should have shown us the team giving it their all to stop and shackle Hermes and Meteion both. Even if Emet-selch couldn't disarm Kairos, lobbing magicks at it to SHOW that it would be fruitless would have made the most of the cutscene. Showing that Venat tried to restrain/catch/knock out of the sky Meteion instead of trying to out pace her within an enfeebling pseudo space would have shown that it was fruitless.

Instead we had five solid minutes of monologuing from two different villains, which in Etheirysian time is close to 1 hour and 40 minutes. And even if we ignore the time disparity for cutscene convenience, it's still a lot of dead time of our heroes being all subject to cutscene paralysis and incompetence.

Then when they do spring to action, there is yet MORE MONOLOGUING. Hythlodaeus telling us something we already know about how we need to keep our memories. Emet-selch being able to rupture the enfeebling pseudo space to get us out of it. Venat being able to materialize another Argos in secret.

Then begging the question, how does Meteion actually exit this pseudo space by merely flying up? Ktsis is not linked to the sky outside. It is a pseudo space. Can she perceive aetherial confluences and shatter them as well? Is the inside of Ktsis actually linking real locations on Etheirys in spite of the fact that Hythlodaeus explicitly calls attention to the fact that we are still inside of the building?

I did no omissions purposefully. That's you adding additional context to my actions, just like you're adding additional, unspoken things to the cutscenes themselves. That's the only skewing going on here, thanks.