YoshiP “Torn" Over What to do with the Scions (Interview)

[Bunyon]

Bizarre to me that they made it so the Scions would "disband" and all go to their own ways, opening the perfect opportunity to have the WoL to go to Tural alone (and this would even help justify the emphasis on Wuk Lamat so much, even if just a little bit), but then they just force the Scions in anyway just to have them stand around and do nothing.

I think they had two paths: Keep the scions and make it a typical expansion, or remove the scions and try something different. But they wanted to have it both ways, and the result ended up sitting poorly with most people. Either they are significant to the story, or they shouldn't be in at all.

Honestly, Krile's writing was the most insane to me. They put her front and center going into the expansion as she complains "I don't want to be left behind anymore" and then make a whole ass expansion where you could remove all mentions and instances of Krile and absolutely nothing would change in the least.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Bizarre to me that they made it so the Scions would "disband" and all go to their own ways,

Which didn't even last through the next line in the very same cut scene and was pretty clearly just an excuse to get the Eorzean Alliance to stop dropping every single problem on the Scions all the time.