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

[Rulakir]

I myself lean towards conservative/libertarian views (and that would entail upholding/preserving certain values over a status quo per se)

Yours is a better definition. I tend to be fiercely libertarian myself, so as soon as Venat infringed on everyone's fundamental rights to create her new world order it was a big Hell no from me.

Furthermore, if I wanted to be more harsh on the Anicents, and especially those that became Ascians, I'd call them entho-nationlist.

Well, if we go that route then Venat is guilty of racial cleansing. She eradicated the Ancients as a race, including the complete erasure of their history.

[Lauront]

Yours is a better definition. I tend to be fiercely libertarian myself, so as soon as Venat infringed on everyone's fundamental rights to create her new world order it was a big Hell no from me.

The bolded is where I think you'd probably begin to get closer to identifying why people identify with one side or another, where there's a philosophical reason for it, as opposed to something like fave characters etc. I.e. people's ethical frameworks and how they interpret things as fitting into these. These tend to transcend political beliefs, in that you can believe in similar values but hold to different ways to achieving these (and the opposite is true as well.) These sort of discussions remind me of my days back when I was a student, not overly long ago. I tend to prefer keeping political discussions out of gaming because they rarely stay away from contemporary RL issues, but it's good that we're keeping it to a general principles level rather than getting bogged down in the hot button political gremlins du jour.