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

[Rulakir]

It's still irrational to me. The sundered are no more equipped to not become The Plenty, in fact, one of the notes states that they started out similar to the sundered. Venat may have kicked the can down the road, but it's not as if her 'solution' is permanent.

I hesitate to mention Allag or Garlemald because people get hung up on them being Ascian constructs, but Allag was close to "perfection" and Garlemald was close to the second world in the Dead Ends. It doesn't take a lot to manipulate mankind into destroying themselves.

[Kyohei]

Yeah it is, but irrationality is widespread and it does have consequences. Nonsense, sadly, can be realistic.

[Lauront]

It's still irrational to me. The sundered are no more equipped to not become The Plenty, in fact, one of the notes states that they started out similar to the sundered. Venat may have kicked the can down the road, but it's not as if her 'solution' is permanent.

I hesitate to mention Allag or Garlemald because people get hung up on them being Ascian constructs, but Allag was close to "perfection" and Garlemald was close to the second world in the Dead Ends. It doesn't take a lot to manipulate mankind into destroying themselves.

Totally, that is the biggest issue with it, and it sits ill at ease with the perfectionist tendencies which sundered man - again, most prominent in the Scions - still harbours. So the "test" can either be administered again by another supreme deity... or they can figure out ways not to kill themselves out of boredom should they achieve the extirpation of suffering. I know which I'd consider the better route. And at the end of the day, the stars are what maintain the cycles of rebirth...

[PawPaw]

It's still irrational to me. The sundered are no more equipped to not become The Plenty

More likely that the Sundered will go the way of the diseased ocean invaders or the friendly neighborhood Globalcitizen. Same dungeon but let's be honest, the Sundered could never be peaceful long enough to get bored to literal death of it.

[Erendis]

More likely that the Sundered will go the way of the diseased ocean invaders or the friendly neighborhood Globalcitizen. Same dungeon but let's be honest, the Sundered could never be peaceful long enough to get bored to literal death of it.

Honestly, world can't perfect (for people) if people do not want to live in it. People of the Plenty seemed to think that lack of conflict caused their boredom but imo they just stopped caring about anything but themselves.