What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[linayar]

All these people bashing the ancients for sacrificing etc. I’m really curious then on how you all feel with Venat’s backup plan being to sacrifice all of the other shards and only have the people on the source survive. So much for all of her “children” hm?

What are you talking about? When was Venat sacrificing the other shards? (On a side note, is the Source considered a shard as well or just the reflections?)

Or how about we talk about ironworks, instead of moving forward, decided to mess with time and jeopardize billions of people just to being 1 person back to life. So much for the sundered moving forward and not being tied to the past.

How were they jeopardizing billions of people? Either way, we weren't put in a position to judge them.

Oh but i’m sure this is just one of many examples of it being perfectly okay when the protagonists do it, but when the antagonists do it it’s wrong.

Actually, if you want to put it that way, that's fine by me. As I said, this story is told from our point of view. Anything that harms us is to be fought. That's not even something to be argued against.

As far as Venat telling people goes, we at the very least know she didn’t even tell the truth to her own people who were going to sacrifice themselves for Hydaelyn. As per the anamnesis cutscene, it seems they didn’t even know she was going to die or that they would be sacrificed.

I don't think we have enough information regarding this. It seems to me that the cutscene we saw was a recreation centered on Venat's motivation, rather than a chronological retelling of the events that happened.

What is said, when it's said, how it's said are all important factors for convincing someone to take or allow action. Her wording would've invoked me to take action against her.

At what point would you take action against her? When she was helping you through some of the biggest fights through her blessing? Where in the chronology between 1.0 (or 2.0) up to 6.0 would you have the chance to come around and take action against her?

Actually, she wanted to see if mankind could survive on their own and indeed initiated the fight herself. So, taking action against her would've just played into her plan. The only difference is it'd be going out of the WoL's character to do it sooner than the trial. Because up to that point, she had not taken action against the WoL.