I'm going to just shit out my ultimate unpopular opinion right here, in mild defense of Endorkend, thanks.

If a plot point is enough to ruin a story, it was not a well written story to begin with.

Stories live and die through character development and growth. Weak stories often rely on things like twists and unexpected plot turns. Strong stories can often have these elements, but they don't lean on them.

Strong stories I return to again and again, because the story is strong even though I already know the story. Knowing the story doesn't ruin repeat watches/plays/readings of the media if the story is successful at being a good story. Well written stories with deep, interesting characters achieve that.

I've been playing Starfield and it has somehow worse writing and voice acting than a lot of previous Bethesda titles, which is saying a lot because it's not like they're not well known for weak writing at this point. It has a lot of strengths that have been kind of overlooked because it's just generally kind of boring, but it does have them. Those strengths are not in the storytelling.

I don't think this plot point spoils the game at all, instead it reveals how utterly weak the narrative they've crafted is.

The main quest is utterly irrelevant and a detriment to the rest of the game.

The whole game would've been better without that main quest even existing.

And knowing what happens has no relevance to the game you play, especially since it makes the rest of the game completely irrelevant if you dare finish the main quest.

That's the point. It's meaningless to the point of it making the game worse by even existing.

And that's without the issues I mentioned originally, where while it's just utter shit, it's also really badly integrated.