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

[Teraq]

I have similar sentiments on the above. IMO he at least acknowledges she is controversial in a similar sense that SHB (i.e. 12k years post-Sundering) Emet is - a man changed by the factors you mentioned. And while he attributes this to a characteristic of the ancients, we can point to various other antagonists - sundered, no less - who act in a similar manner, so in my view that isn't a particularly compelling way of looking at it. However, I'm glad that they recognise this about her. I think you'd have to be attempting to gaslight not to do that, so there is that too.

Yeah, I wasn't sure what he was going on about with the comment on Ancients in general, here. Did he mean that taking measures like a little genociding and history-wiping here and there because humanity failed a test was something a single Ancient was just likely to do? Oh, those Ancients!

I mean, if anything, the other Ancients we do kind of know, in context of their world as it used to be, took important decisions as a group of fourteen, presumably diverse, representatives, who debated things, could agree or disagree and even had a dedicated mediator.