What are some questions you still wonder about Xenoblade X's development and story?

Hello! Wondering how many questions everyone still has about the game's development and story, and now with Xenoblade X DE what are some of the new questions ya'll have of it? Can be as honest as ya want really, curious to know what the common fan perspective of Xenoblade X's development is and what we ended up getting, can even be your own answers that you've formulated to those questions over time.

Feel free to talk about any spoiler stuff as well.

These questions can for example be:
- Was >!Void!<always the Great One?
- Was >!Mira always planned to disappear !<

- How did the story originally look like before the game got online implimintation? How much changed?
- Did the new story content of Xenoblade X DE restore this old story? What was the intention of the original story?
- Was >!Al!< always a part of the story? How much did they change if they were?
- >!Is the game connected to the Xenoblade trilogy? And if it was, was it connected to Xenoblade 1 from the start?!<

- Are there things now that have been completely cut out of the story?
- If the new story content of X isn't how you thought they'd follow up the story, what did you think the follow up was going to look like?

- Was X always going to be sidequest driven and was the main story always going to take a backseat?
- >!Was the story always going to feature multiple universes?!<

- Were the plans and direction for the series back then the same as the plans and direction for the series today?

As to the why I'm asking this, well, I've been writing a pretty long indepth Xeno series analysis since early 2024, and I've been going around Xeno subs for a bit to see what some questions people have about the series development and story are. To be honest, I actually have a lot of answers I'd like to put forward to these questions with my Xeno series analysis that may intrigue some longtime fans, but they're not gonna be answers that everyone will like. For now though I'm just curious and wanna read some of the raw thoughts people have about these questions, their own questions, and your own answers that you have formed for them over the years.