What even was that capstone questline?

[Valence]

I don't like the how the end of the questline had Apyaahi make some legitimate points only for it to segway into a joke about her not wanting to pay for a room. The fact that it played funny music while she was talking about how she had her belongings stolen while she was living on the streets (which is something that happens to homeless people in real life) felt rather mean-spirited.

Sorry for getting political or whatever, but it kind of felt like the writer for this questline was trying to make an anarchist character while not understanding what that ideology actually means. If the intention was to make her a LARPer, then it would be funnier to me, but I don't think that was the intention here.

The whole series of quests felt mean spirited to me. The caster one with the kid thinking he's a superhero or the healer one as well. We're obviously dealing with people not well in their head for a lot of them, and this one felt yet more of the same crap. I felt ten times more empathy for their pathetic clown asses than for the Tulliyolal side that just felt like bullies.

At least they didn't disrobe the villain once beaten to finish humiliating her like they did with the superhero one... Is there a cultural wall I'm not getting past or what? All of this questline is borderline offensive to trudge through.


Edit: thinking more about it it seems to me a bad caricature of Japan's obsession about whacking anything that stands out, comprehend here: the "villains". Meanwhile I secretly wished I could side with them as a radical anarchist to mount a coup and atomize the ruling system in the worst places like Ul'dah or Limsa, that's how this whole questline radicalized me if anything.