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

[LittleArrow]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but that's not the only reason why Venat sundered the world. She sundered it because this is the only way we could defeat Meteion. Y'shtola brings this up to her during her trial encounter as well. She states how Venat (just as Venat herself said before we left) played a long game in sundering our souls so that 1. we would be able to combat dispair, something seemingly the entire rest of the universe thus far hasn't been able to do... so thanks for that Venat, and 2. we would have a thinner Aether make up to combat Meteion and her dynamis powers (we have dynamis powers ourselves due to being of thinner aether makeup).

Venat also stated that these are their problems. They have to handle the final days on their own, it's not our fight. The final days would've happened with or without us due to Hermes and Meteion's interaction with the rest of the universe.

I totally get feeling so compelled by a broken connection to a game's story it can ruin the entire experience, and I hope this helps.

EDIT: I'd also like to add, with or without Meteion it seems heavily implied by the story the Ancients would have destroyed themselves eventually anyways. Every single cosmic race achieved paradise and ultimately destroyed themselves because they didn't have hope - the only exception being Midgardsormir. The Ancients likely would have came to this conclusion as well, seeing as how there was no sign that they knew hope as we do. Most likely they would've found they improved the star with their creation magics to the point there was no more improvement, and without any further goal they would've probably creationed themselves to death.