*Spoilers* Anyone feel joining Emet would have been better

[Kordarion]

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.

Really? The fact that we went back to Elpis to begin with, by making us directly experience a slice of ancient society makes those people and their culture more a tangible reality and less an abstract concept. This "humanisation" of the ancients by making them real characters gives the human cost of the sundering an interactable face. What's the Stalin quote, One death is a tragedy but a million is a statistic, by making us interact with the ancients it turns a statistic into a tragedy, after all isn't that what your arguing, that its a tragedy?

Hydaelyn/Venat even outrights tells us, in our conversation in the aetherial sea, that what she did wasn't morally right decision, wasn't an ethical action but that it was a necessary one. Now you can argue that of course she would say that, she needed to say that to make us do what she wanted and fair enough, but she still admits her actions weren't morally right but were necessary. That is one definition of morally grey, doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.

In the end that is the problem, not moral ambiguity, but that, as far as I can tell, you and others like you don't see it as a necessary act and therefore only see an "evil" individual not being brought to justice.

Edit: This doesn't mean your not allowed to have your opinion, just that for some people the game hasn't done enough to justify Venat's actions.