The story is great, but it blatantly gets in the way of the rest of the game

[MoofiaBossVal]

you should probably study up on final fantasy there friendo, its a franchise that is very story rich and they will always prioritize it over everything else.

I don't remember Final Fantasy games being 400+ hours long and filled with dozens of 8 minute long scenes of watching a catboy eat burgers. Even the first FF game to go over the 30 hour mark, FF12, didn't have filler scenes like that.