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

[DevonEllwood]

I didn't watch the live letter so I'm only getting pieces second-hand. From what I gathered Yoshida was confused or surprised that people found Venat's motives questionable at the least. I'm going to break this down a bit and please tell me if I get something wrong.

Person A wanted to change humanity and decided their abilities and memories be removed. Upon doing this multiple other worlds were created and mankind and plenty of other life lived in these worlds (worlds 2-14). Person A purposefully left Person B, as well as a couple others, with their powers and memories. Person A knew that that leaving Person B (with memories and powers) would cause deaths of of several select worlds. Person A could not intervene because person C was needed to be at their best and thus required the powers from [their shard selves] these worlds. Person A did not tell their allies that all this was going to happen. This was in order to solve the Big Problem that only person A knew about because they did not tell anyone. This information came to Person A before the Big Problem started.

Person B didn't know why Person A was doing what they were doing. Person B knew about the Big Problem initially but had their memory wiped. Person B's group summoned a protector that required their people to be willingly sacrificed to postpone the Big Problem. After this, person A did the thing to remove the memories and powers of Person B's group (but not Person B themselves) and create the multiple words that Person A knew would have to die for Person C to be ready to tackle the Big Problem.

Person C did not have a guarantee to fix the Big Problem. There was another plan, one that did not fix the Big Problem and was also another gamble.

I'm trying to look at this from an outside perspective and it seems to be the best solution would be for Person A to give the information they know to Person B's group so multiple worlds would not have to be made just to die because of a gamble on Person C. I guess there's the time travel that wasn't mentioned involved, but Person C got the information they needed in order to try to save world 1, their own world. Maybe the finer details matter, I don't know, but from looking at it, both person A and B look bad.

Also if we add the details and Brinne's explanation for Venat's actions
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5854982

You either get a Venat that has the mentality of a child, or a complete psychopath. She literally remolded the world and mankind into something that would be more interesting to her and to potentially solve a problem that she withheld information on. Maybe after that 12,000 years she finally realized what she did was wrong and that's why she apologizes. The scions didn't care though because it benefited them in the end. For someone to see something as "good" because it benefits them at the expense of others is kind of gross. Y'shtola not saying anything was baffling. Back in ARR with one of the scenes before Titan, Y'shtola confronted the Admiral about breaking a peace treaty with the kobolds and taking their land. The admiral said yeah it was wrong, but I don't care, I'm here to help my own people at the expense of others. I know this is not on the same level as killing multiple worlds, but Y'shtola still thought there was a better solution.

Brinne's Venat explanation is the only one I can find that makes sense of the complete 180 that she pulled. It makes sense for Hydaelyn to be designed the way she was because when would have seen herself as a savior and a mother to these new creations. She thought she was helping humanity with them being the best they could be. She is the worst parts of Hermes and Hades combined. I wanted to like Hydaelyn, but this description makes sense and is the most depressing thing about the story, not the existential crisis bs.

Zodiark's design fits him, it's very strong with aspects of the sea (octopus!) air, and land. I guess the statue was a prototype? Why is it so different?

Also out of curiosity, how many more worlds did Meteion potentially bring the end of between us in Elpis and her own death? Also, she did say they all made it to their destinations safely, but did they all survive on the planets? One mentioned a planet with the bones resembling "men", was she only looking for humanoid life? Were there any planets that ignored her or even killed her? I'm assuming they would not have gotten into the report.

And why did we need a giant spaceship the size of an ark to get everyone from the planet to the moon, just for it to not be capable of doing that, instead of a teleporter? The bunnies would have made one side on the moon, made cute little bunny spaceships to get to the plant and make the other half with technology that already exists. They were already working on aetherite travel that didn't need attunement. Why not pour all your efforts into that instead of a giant spaceship to hold all of humanity except the garleans because there was going to be no way they would have been allowed on.

Are we just going to drop Dynamis as a concept from here on out since it's part of the "old story"? I think it's stupid but I'd rather it get expanded on instead of dropped like all these other plot threads. How many of these plot threads are going to be dropped? Why did Yoshida not think people looked into the story that much when we have lore books? Ethys and Anonymoos? Is he that out of touch with the people who play the game for the story?

I think that's all my burning questions so far. I might have more next week!