I'm sorry, but you're supposed to just cry, say about how the MSQ changed your life for the 1000th time and not think about it deeply at all, otherwise you're insulting the great Yoshi-P and the brilliant company that is Square Enix. Now eat up your slop that came out of SE's bum, peasant.

Jokes and hyperbole aside, though, yes, it's as the other comments in the thread already mentioned. The story is just poorly thought-out and written. They shoved in way too many things into this one expansion's X.0 story, because they couldn't decide on what to focus on (Or rather, they were afraid of making a slower/lower stakes expansion like what we see in the first half, so they decided to throw in the whole Alexandria storyline as well), plus add the new writers' inexperience and incompetence into the pot, and we end up getting this shoddily written and rushed mess of a MSQ that reeks of insecurity and cowardice.

There are some good things in the story, but all of it is wasted potential because indie company is too scared to make a mistake, so in the process of trying to appease everyone, they made an even bigger one.