The story of endwalker is that the devs of 1.0 used Elpis, the devroom to design creatures for the game. But one dev couldnt stand to see rejected concepts thrown away to never exist. He looked elsewhere, up in the stars at other video games, but found only video games that had died. Heroes of the storm, starcraft, FF11...

The 1.0 devs desperately insisted that 1.0 wasnt dead despite the harsh truth... but our lord and savior Venat-p saw a way forward, to save the game even if it wouldnt be recognizable as 1.0 anymore.

You will not believe this, but way back in ARR 10 years ago, I always joked that the ascians were trying to bring back 1.0 and i was right xD