Originally Posted by
Eisi
To acknowledge Venat as a genocidal fool who should have told everyone and tried to stop the course of fate rather than stand by and do nothing as everything she knows will happen happened is to go against everything Endwalker believed itself to be. It has the story become meta in an unbelievably pathetic way that would willingly spit into prior writing's (that was done in two days mind you) face and throw a whole expansion under the bus for no reason other than as a weird excuse for failing as writers. I will never be in favor of such undignified weakness that has the writers prostrate themselves before the playerbase for having failed the way they did. I would take no pleasure in that, I would be embarrassed and hide my face in shame.
There is no way to fix Endwalker. Retroactively acknowledging that yes, it doesn't make any sense, will not serve to make the story any better at all and there is no way to transmute it into something beautiful nor is there meaningful storytelling potential in uncovering large swathes of Endwalker as basically a fever dream that didn't actually happen the way it did just because it sucked. The time for "different perspectives" on Venat has come and gone with Endwalker, an expansion that has doubled and tripled down on the one path we actually got to walk, a path that doesn't even understand itself. Besides Venat herself is clearly an unintended victim of a botched storyline that makes no sense in many many ways beyond just her behavior and character.