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[INDENT][I]Thy Life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow
To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow
In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow
Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow
In the same fleeting moment thou must live, die and know
Yes, a nice song written long before the reality of what Hydaelyn is and what she's done was shown, and even it is a complete non-answer. Hydaelyn created a world of fragile mortality full of illness, war, death, and a cycle of perpetual ignorance where people repeat their mistakes over and over again across lifetimes they can't remember. It may be she had a very good reason to do this, even simply to preserve the stability of the star and ensure some form of life persisted, but to simply say "It's a riddle, find your own answer and pass it down once you die" is just the height of disingenuity. That was an acceptably vague god-answer back in ARR, it no longer is because Hydaelyn traded another world for what now exists, so something with more substance than what you'd find on the back of a philosophy 101 book is to be expected.

Keep in mind that I can't detach my experiences in 1.0 from my assessment here; it inevitably colors my evaluation. Those experiences make it a lot more likely that to read into the story the implication that if you hear, "Hear, Feel, Think" and your response is "No, thank you." That's fine. You don't have to join Her cause. You don't have to listen to Her. Plenty of people walked away, ignored it, or never even realized they had it. Some fought with Her enemies. You can choose to never tell anyone you have the Echo and use it solely to cheat at poker and you'll face no consequences.
You may be forgetting here the tidbit of lore that it's Hydaelyn herself who first awakens many people's Echoes. She does this whenever an Umbral Calamity seems on the horizon, to try and make a connection with people who can become Warriors of Light and take up her cause, and if these people do something vaguely heroic she then grants them crystals of light and entrusts them as her agents in the world. Even for people who awaken their Echoes on their own time, she's constantly broadcasting her message to immediately get them predisposed towards her.

we can't help that part
We can't help it because this is the world she created.

I'm just doubful Naoki Yoshida intended that journey to be interpreted as "you spent 10 years being the suckered slave of a duplicitous false god" when in the midst of the greatest chance he had to set that narrative up, Shadowbringers,
In what way was that narrative not set up in Shadowbringers? Shadowbringers established that Hydaelyn is a false god, that she lied to you about the conflict you're fighting for her, that she's done very debatable things in the past, that darkness is not evil and light is not good, and that Warriors of Light putting their blind faith in a force that presupposes it's own righteousness may just make them nothing but useful tools.

Yes, the idea seemingly shown in the trailer of WoL turning to darkness and destroying light was subverted - So why exactly do you think the idea shown in the Endwalker trailer, with WoL standing as the goodly Paladin apparently on the moon to destroy evil, won't be subverted in it's own right? We've already been told outright that Hydaelyn and Zodiark aren't good and evil.

She was summoned to see the new life as her precious children to protect forevermore.
Is that what she was summoned for? Zodiark was the one summoned as a Primal of salvation. Seems to me that Hydaelyn's purpose isn't protecting lives, but protecting the stability of the world.

Did Hydaelyn lie to you any more than Ifrit or Garuda did when they acted as though the only narrative summoned into them was the Truth?
Primals aren't automatons. Ramuh was able to look at the situation and conclude WoL was worth entrusting the protection of the Sylphs to, same for Alexander, Louisoix gave up on his task as Phoenix, even Yotsuyu let go of her spite at the end. Why should we think that Hydaelyn truly believed what she was saying instead of lying about it? And if she does really think of herself as a true god who justly excised the covetous darkness while using her own servants (as she explicitly compares to the Ascians serving Zodiark) to enact her will, why exactly should she be treated differently than any other Primal? I'm sure every other society that's summoned one has thought it was on their sides as well.