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

[Kozh]

What any decent researcher would've done to begin with is not starting to create new species left and right from the start.

Just from this sentence alone it's clear you don't even understand the Ancients society. Sure, let's let the earth untamed, unhabitable place. Stellar idea.

And regarding shark with legs, it's not any more contrived than going with "See that species of a forgotten area no one cares and how they died to bad adventurers? Boom. Ancients 1 - Sundered 0"

What...?

Hell, no. But seeing this then arguing the Ancients are the idyllic creatures we take them for is just delusion.

No one said they're incapable of violence?? They have different standard than the sundered and are more peaceful, that's a fact. And yeah ofc they have flaws when being cornered, just the same as us. That's called being human. Nothing exactly wrong with that.

They have such "moderation", because they just CAN'T deal with those situations.

No? Their way of living is already like that from the start way before the final days. Avoiding conflict and self moderation are important to them because each of them basically can nuke their civilization if they aren't careful. Remember when a single stray thought can turn a creation magic result into something else?

Rather than solve conflicts as they appear, they prefer to sacrifice in order to run away from them.

Oh yeah, that's why the Azems travel around the world to ignore those in need. Just run away from them. Cool.

They only resort to sacrifice because it's absolute requirement for summoning zodiark. Speaking of sacrifice and run away, are you going to belittle every sundered person who do the same?

And the mourning dew falls flat once you look back at Hermes and when he critizices this very thing, the answer he get is, in short, "It is what it is, it's a pity, but it's not a big deal".

If you can't deal with this mindset, I suggest you turn away from biology major/works. Because that's literally how researchers work. You said it yourself. We don't take pleasure from it, yet it had to be done.

Speaking of hermes, his personality is believable, but what unbelievable is how this guy manage to become chief overseer of a research facility where you have to deal with creatures every day. If even Twitter can recognize how stupid the idea is and how weird no one said anything about meteion, then it's just bad writing.