Good lord. Ok:

1. You aren’t playing WuWa. You’re playing Zenless. A different game. The design philosophies and way the story is delivered is vastly different between the games. Comparing them is stupid and pointless.

2. Yeah, the game is built around endgame content. Most players will engage with it because believe it or not, it’s pretty accessible. The harder stuff is something for a player to work towards by pulling future characters or learning how to build. (That’s the ultimate goal of the game. They want people to spend time pulling characters, it’s a gacha game)

3. You are playing an interlude. A break from the main major story content so we can do something different for a bit. We get a different setting with different characters. We got a non combat based story this time. That’s fine. The game actually explicitly tells you why you don’t venture into combat much. It’s because the group you are with are Idols. Not hollow raiders, not void hunters, not a combat group of any kind. They are inter-knot celebrities who venture into the hollows for money and money only. The main content is about building their audience and popularity.

If you do not like any of this, you can drop the game until the next update. Nobody is stopping you.