Just uninstalled XVI.
Somehow it feels like it's really over now, X was the last good FF game now that I think about it. I kept buying them on name alone because they used to be so good, but I'll probably stop now.

I dropped after the marshland town where the innkeeper lady added fetch quests and "slay boars" quests to the main quest line. I realized I was skipping even main quest cutscenes by then, so there was nothing left. Everything was so padded with useless dialogue.
As for the characters, I only liked Cid, disliked the rest. Especially the MC felt completely unrelatable with all his tantrums and stupid decisions. And I'm expected to play as him and go along, while he is being wrong. Looks like it was the intention to have him always be wrong in everything, eg fighting the girl, then "who killed my bro" when it was him. Then when he finds out and goes all depressed because he killed his bro, they immediately show bro is still alive. Not just him, everyone except Cid kept acting like fools.

The world and story felt bland too, muggles enslaving mages was just too arbitrary, there is no way they could have. And all of them acting totally evil while totally depending on the mages too... "Slavery Bad" is way too simple and bland to be a good FF story. I read the spoilers already, and apparently they don't teach the people what's right, they don't even rebel, instead, the plan is to erase magic from the world because that will surely end all racism... That's an FF13 tier plot right there.

Combat was not for me either but I understand this may have its audience. I preferred the more "strategic" gameplay of old, managing multiple skill bars and chargeups and doggo and dodging in parallel was too much for me. I mostly just dumped my skills when they were off cooldown.

As for the positive side, I thought it looked great, especially the summon battles.
And I read they were "heavily inspired by Game of Thrones", and lolled when Hodor appeared.