It's okay, it did feel like the obligatory tournament/prove thyself arcs seen countless times before in certain "shows" only to find that the deities used you to unalive themselves which was a bit odd. Stormblood handled the four lords way back far better, I saw no reason why the twelve decided this route.

I'm more annoyed that the WOL just passively goes along with it for the sake of discovery, but tying the loose ends since ARR so they can move on to expand and create new lore I'm down for, which I really hope they do so with DawnTrail. Even the MSQ post Endwalker, an ascian's name had to pop up sooner or later considering how the 13th came to be the void. My worry is for 7.0 it'll be more "Oh this was started by Ascians too because why not".