Suicide once had a long tradition Japan as the honorable out. Endwalker’s scene seemed like a direct rebuke of that. Far from being honorable the moment is shown as one man’s disgrace. He abandons his people to their fate because he’s too rigid to accept change.

I felt this scene was written by a Japanese author for their audience. To challenge an outdated former cultural norm. It wasn’t written for the NA audience.

To the Japanese audience I suspect it carries a different weight.