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

[linayar]

The collateral damage is what's important in this case. I only brought up the idea of excessive force in referencing concept of unwarranted defense generally.

We don't know what the collateral damage, if any, is. And collateral means they are unintended, so it has nothing to do with the morality of the perpetrator

Though if you wanted to be picky about it, it's bizarre and excessive in retrospect that Hydaelyn sundered the world into 14 parts instead of just, like, 2, presumably causing far greater damage to the selfhood of the people currently living on the planet as a result. We beat Meteion while 9/14 rejoined, so that would have been fine.

I wasn't aware Hydaelyn planned for there to be a specific amount of parts. Where did you find this information?