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

[linayar]

1.Her backup plan involved fleeing the source, which means once Meteion destroyed it, all the shards would cease to exist. She would destroy it, as she was essentially destroying everything in her path at that point. Even the scions acknowledge it would happen and that they wouldnt leave the shards behind.

We don't actually know what she would do. That was just a conversation between the Scions and the Loporrits. Her actions so far were against the people of the Source, not the planet itself.

2.They acknowledged that in messing with time they could cause their own timeline to cease to exist,everyone in that timeline would be dead, and they still went along with it.

Indeed, but they were also already dying, and it seemed the end was near anyway. Regardless, just like I have no reason to be against the Ancients, I have no reason to be against them. My problem is with the Ascians, and regardless of what Venat did, she did not make them try to kill the WoL and the people we know.

3.Thats fine, its your opinion, however i personally find it extremely hypocritical based on the themes the writers have been pushing constantly.

Well, I disagree with the interpretation of how those themes were represented in the story. For one, at no point in explaining the reasoning of the Ascians did they ever try to make them the good guys, so any problem you may have with Venat has nothing to do with the fact of the Ascians and the WoL's current situation.

4.The cutscene we saw was a recording was it not? Stands to reason it was an accurate representation. They didnt even know they were going to die and be sacrificed as they lament the loss of Venat. If they knew they were being sacrificed why would they lament losing her? They'd be dead.

In the end. all of this could've bene avoided if she had just simply gave her knowledge to others and formulated a plan instead of giving up on them and placing her trust in someone she had only just met.

I don't think it was ever stated one way or another. It's also not in context, unless you think Venat just walk by Emet without Emet trying to get her to help.

Her decision could have caused that anyways. Time loops are not easy to write around. EW dealt with it poorly.

That's not necessarily my point though. She took it all upon herself to dictate the fate for all of mankind. There's a certain negligence to that. A certain horrifying realization.

It is indeed not easy to write about time loop, but we know that the Ancients never figured out the cause, so it's not within reason to allow Venat to make her choice of keeping silent due to her explanation.

There's a certain negligence in going back in time in the first place. We were told not to interfere, and yet not only did we interfere, we told them about the situation.