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There's always been tons of random plot hooks littered throughout the optional portions of the game (and half of them were abandoned) but only five years into the game's lifespan did Hoyo realise that a majority of their audience neither know nor care about those things and thus aren't privy to the same knowledge as the developers and writers who've had a somewhat general idea for where they wanted the game to go
The downside is that a lot of the backstory material ultimately just can be dismissed as wiki fuel since the actual main story presented to the player doesn't touch on it beyond making the occasional reference to something most players wouldn't know about in the first place if they hadn't read another player's comment about it online