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

[Tsiron]

Except Elidibus was Zodiark, just like Venat became the core of Hydaelyn... There was nothing there to talk to anymore, considering Elibidus got absorbed into the Crystal Tower

[Rosenstrauch]

Except Elidibus was Zodiark, just like Venat became the core of Hydaelyn... There was nothing there to talk to anymore, considering Elibidus got absorbed into the Crystal Tower

I mean, that's not necessarily true. Elidibus might have been gone, but there were plenty of souls still existing within Zodiark—souls Fandaniel had to squelch before he could take over the primal for himself. Any one of them, or even all of them combined, could have served as Zodiark's will.