I thought the story was a trainwreck that failed to resolve in a satisfying manner most of the loose ends that came before, but it had some good parts (Garlemald and Elpis if you ignore how it integrates with the rest), and the character moments for the Scions were on point and maybe the most emotional in the whole game.

The pandering through Marvel-esque "everyone is here" moments and focusing on popular characters from past expansions who didn't really have any reason to be in the story anymore really soured the whole thing.

The "meaning of life" theme is overdone in anime-adjacent media and is much less interesting than the themes of the previous expansions (anti-colonialism, class struggle, national propaganda, the role of organized religion in placating the masses etc), and I didn't think it was that well executed either. If you want to play a game that does it very well just play Persona 3 and spare yourself the trouble.

However the dungeons were the best yet with interesting mechanics and insane setpieces, and also the music was on point as always, so it wasn't all bad. I wouldn't continue with the next expansion unless it brought some serious changes to the 6 empty maps with aether currents formula, it got really tiresome after all those expansions.

I only just finished the MSQ so the endgame doesn't factor into my opinion, but from what I gather it isn't very good either.