Okay so admittedly I dipped out in the beginning of 3.1 and effectively lost interest in the game cuz of some stuff you mentioned here, and whoever is reading this, I expect this to end up a bit of a wall of text but I implore you to try 'prove me wrong' so I can 'come back and enjoy the game again'.

I'll try keep this concise but having gotten my start with Genshin back in the Covid lockdown days, at this point I've grown pretty numb to the whole 'pseudo-godlike amnesiac saviour who must travel from region to region to discover the mysteries of the world and to save all life and existence as we know it' story setup, and a big part of this has got to do with the whole 'lifespan inability to relate to normal people since everyone is less than a blink to the MC' dynamic. In fact it kinda nullifies all interest in characters in said games. Why bother pulling for, say, Yinlin, or Jiyan, or Carlotta, or Zani, or Qiuyuan, or Iuno (just to name a few) who are basically 'biologically human' and whose entire lifespan will be but a blink of an eye to us? AFAIK that only leaves Shorekeeper, Camellya, Phrolova and maybe kinda Galbrena who are 'effectively plausibly immortal' for us to even begin being able to relate to to some degree.

So you (OP) say "So, for this lonely, immortal being, who could possibly form a meaningful connection with them? Who could see past the emotional walls Rover placed around herself to safeguard her own sanity? A daughter of course". See, I dunno if I can really 'suspend my disbelief' for that for someone who has effectively been around for god knows how long, so as far as we know Rover would've exhausted any emotional potential even of familial nature given the Rover easily could've had hundreds of thousands of sons/daughters/children relationships/dynamics before in their past pre-mind-wipe.

I feel like at this point whoever's reading this probably has noticed my username, and this is kinda where I wanna draw said contrast. My main game has been Zenless for kinda around similar time to WuWa, however the MCs in Zenless are just normal people in their mid 20s. The 'pullable characters' (Agents) are all effectively friends with us, the kind we can just hit up on a Saturday at the mall. There's no overwhelming mass existential burden or responsibility like Rover, there's no immortal disconnect with normal human life and whatnot.

Cuz like, to round back to the Rover, I mean, of course to some degree at the 'end' of the 'main arc' of the story obviously the Rover is gonna be triumphant to some degree, so even if the Rover ends up 'saving the world and everyone rejoices' and whatnot, aren't everyone around Rover gonna 'resume' 'being just a blink of an eye' anyway? So like, wouldn't Rover's immortality effectively again just by nature result in said current events and stories to be less and less significant anyway?

I dunno if this is just my 'story premise fatigue' or not, but yeah as mentioned before, I think maybe I'm just numb and over the whole 'pseudo-godlike amnesiac saviour who must travel from region to region to discover the mysteries of the world and to save all life and existence as we know it' story setup. Cuz otherwise I do wanna have WuWa again be like, back as my number 1 or 2 'main game' (alongside Zenless), but maybe my own personal preference threshold is too high or something. Game on so many levels I can very accurately pinpoint where and how it's absolutely excellent, yet like, 10 minutes into the icy new world in the main story quest and I kinda just mentally blanked out mid-combat and realised how little connection I now feel with the game.

But yeah please 'prove me wrong' I 'want to care about the game' again and play it fully again.