*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[EaraGrace]

The issue, I think, is that her solution appears not to have worked. People still want to advance, prosper, and reduce suffering. People are still very willing to turn to Primals for salvation - Hydaelyn being one such example - and even without them are wont to turn to individuals like WoL. At the end of 5.0, Urianger even tells Emet that they share the selfsame motivation, creating the "best of all futures". In this context the sundering did not change the nature of mankind, it merely set-back their progress.

Wanting to advance, prosper and reduce suffering was not the issue. Refusing to accept the inevitability of suffering was the issue. And yes, people will still struggle and find themselves, that does not change the fact that humanity is now on the path to both searching for solutions to problems, while still being able to grapple with failure. That wasn’t the case before, and would’ve led to humanitys end.

The Convocation should not have even been her enemy, she is the one who made herself their enemy, by intent. I can hardly view her attempts to reach out to them as being in good-faith when any argument she made could only have been predicated on lies about their situation.

What lie is there in stating that they have not solved the crisis and that an unrestrained Zodiark would not save them?

And this was a very good decision on Midgardsormr's part. He didn't presume to be the arbitrator of his entire race's future and dictate what path they should take, he took his own path divergent from their own. I think Venat should have done the same.

She should have fled and left the rest of humanity to its fate? To where? To another planet unprotected by Zodiark? And how?