Endwalker's story had me, but lost me. Ethical issues especially (spoilers)

[Anonymoose]

Why do people still keep insisting that if you change the past, you erase the future? We know for a fact that this isn't the case. It's not called a split timeline because one is erased, it's called that because they both continue to exist at the same time.

Using causality loops and split timelines in the same game without explaining either of them directly was discontent waiting to happen. Now we've got one massive causality loop attached to one side of a Y-shaped timeline spawned from Rift shenanigans, and within the stem of that Y is another resolved causality loop for Alexander. Until Oda and Ishikawa walk everyone through all that in a PowerPoint, people are going to keep telling each other their unconfirmed opinions about how it works are wrong.

I hate time shenanigans for exactly this reason. I was impressed how well Alexander handled the illusion of time from a 3D perspective when its contents are edited from a 4D perspective and now... whatever this is... haunts me.

What's everyone gonna do if it's just applied phlebotinum? The Rift last time, dynamis this time, don't think too hard about it?

/shudders