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

[Theodric]

Each to their own, though I personally think it does a disservice to many people who have struggled with depression to try and gatekeep 'understanding it' behind a fictional entity that, quite frankly, wasn't exactly portrayed as a reasonable or rational individual.

Nor do I believe that every man, woman and child within a civilisation needs to be endangered to appease the bizarre whims of an individual such as Hermes.

[Skyborne]

I will empathize with the deerbirds rather than the ravenous red dogs that killed them, thanks. Much in the same way, I'll empathize with the sundered and unsundered who were killed in the Final Days. Now go eat a candy apple or something.