This was well written out, but I respectfully disagree. There were plenty of moments that felt like a color by numbers game plot, but as a, at the time, new dad the themes of having children that you've brought into this world having to deal with the mess you've made but are unable to fix hit me like a ton of bricks. That being said, that want necessarily Aloy or the main story that gave me that feeling, it was the world and the backstory that served as foil for an otherwise admittedly uninteresting main plot. Anything actively happening in the game was pretty secondary in my mind to the desire to know what happened to the plan to save humanity. So I would say there was good writing in there somewhere, it just wasn't the main focus of the game. Kind of like how star wars has a cool universe but the movies suck.