*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Absimiliard]

Except they didn't. Endwalker did a hard turn away from the moral ambiguity ShB did all that work to establish, in my opinion. Having completed every side-quest, role quest, FATE, raid, and everything in between, I saw absolutely nothing that indicated to me the writers wished to portray Venat as having committed an unforgivable sin. Quite the contrary. It very much appeared to myself and seemingly many others that an inordinate amount of whitewashing occurred. Even some of the previously established lore was disregarded in favor of this outcome.

Incidentally, there are indicators that she may not even have been entirely factually correct. Take the WoL, for example; 8/14 rejoined and still capable of wielding dynamis on a level even Meteion couldn't withstand. Also in possession of an amount of aether noted to be many times greater (at the current time) than even that of Midgardsormr's children. Seems pretty likely the world didn't need to be split into 14.