Disappointed in one Endwalker Aspect [SPOILERS]

[Cilia]

Theoretically, the PC could stay behind in the World Unsundered and help Venat (?) stop the OG Final Days, but that raises two big issues:

1. They would be cut off from Etheriys as we know it, existing as an orphan of time like Exarch G'raha.
2. It would abandon Etheriys as we know it to certain doom. The Sharlayan / Hydaelyn's exodus plan would save some people but not everybody, the reflections would all be annihilated, and the threat Meteion posed would still be out there for the indefinite future. Further the PC, the lynchpin on which everyone's hope rests, disappearing would probably make the Final Days much worse.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Further, the idea Hermes wanted to impress upon the rest of Amaurotine society - that lesser beings deserve a chance to live on their own terms - would never get through. Unimaginable calamities and 12,500 years failed to teach the few survivors empathy for other living things; what hope would rhetoric have? Their pursuit of perfection would also likely damn them one way or another, sooner or later, and all of this is predicated on the idea the Ancients would be able to stop Meteion in the first place.

...

I am aware Yoshi-P aims to make the game entertaining above all, but when you get lines like...

What meaning there is to be found in the petty vicissitudes of your existence must be gleaned by you and you alone.

... it's really hard to argue there's not philosophical overtones to the story.

Finally, one cannot argue "there is no good or evil only perspective" and follow it up with "Venat is an irredeemably evil monster." Again, you cannot have your cake and eat it too.