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

[Kozh]

Honestly I'm not sure why they went with "venat sunder because dynamis" instead of "venat sunder because sacrificing new life is bad" (with the confirmation that, yes, the new life seeded by zodiark is indeed new Ancients). Imo, the second option is more grounded and better taken than the first one. Mainly because we never see her efforts on trying to prevent the final days besides preaching. Not only that, she also comply with hermes ridiculous test and rule, forcing a standard that goes against the nature of the Ancients (a peaceful immortal race who focuses on the betterment of the star).

Shouldn't made dynamis and meteion a thing imo.

[KageTokage]

Honestly I'm not sure why they went with "venat sunder because dynamis" instead of "venat sunder because sacrificing new life is bad" (with the confirmation that, yes, the new life seeded by zodiark is indeed new Ancients). Imo, the second option is more grounded and better taken than the first one. Mainly because we never see her efforts on trying to prevent the final days besides preaching. Not only that, she also comply with hermes ridiculous test and rule, forcing a standard that goes against the nature of the Ancients (a peaceful immortal race who focuses on the betterment of the star).

Shouldn't made dynamis and meteion a thing imo.

I don't feel that the dynamis and Meteion were the issue so much as the time travel and resulting causal loop being decided upon as their method for providing the solution to the Final Days and the reasoning behind the Sundering.

They could've reasonably kept Elpis in the present day and conveyed the necessary information in other ways with some tweaking, like Fandaniel saying something that would implicate Hermes with having been tied to the Final Days all along, but Elidibus and the rest of Convocation not knowing due to him still having opted to erase his memories with Kairos, perhaps simply because he felt the truth of the universe was too ugly to bear. We could learned about the whole Meteion threat by finding a spare concept that Hermes had hidden away in Ktisis Hyperboreia (Given how many he had produced, he had to have had one somewhere), then having the thing go crazy the instant it's awakened.

That's only scratching the surface of the elements they'd need to change/re-contextualize but it hardly strikes me as impossible to pull off.