Honestly, I didn’t think DT’s story was THAT bad.
After playing through fricken Endwalker, it was hard to come up with anything anywhere near that level of awesome.
I was expecting DT to be kinda “meh” and sure enough it was. But they ARE setting a new story up, and the latter 30% of Dawntrail got the speculation wheels a-turnin all over again, with more intrigue and mystery.
They had to set it up properly though, and while it was a bit “meh” and “boring”, I understand why it needed to be there.