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

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This sorta hinges on people believing it's Hermes's fault tho.
I can't remember exactly but I don't think it was said that it was Hermes who like single-handidly built it or anything.
Even tho yes two extra missing people is weird in the grand scheme of things I don't think it'd change anything.

Hermes was already considered for the position and there's no reason to believe he was behind it, as far as they knew he was a victim too and the missing two were the culprits or it was simply an accident.
The Ancients before this I think it's at least implied didn't exactly have a lot of bad stuff happening, and considering what they were up to and creating whenever something bad happened it was most likely just due to accidents.
I don't exactly think that an accident happening like this would be so unbelievable and even if they believed it was on purpose they'd still see Hermes as a victim.

If they wanted him on the convocation they had probably done their research on him, I don't think one bad thing happening '' under his watch '' that they wouldn't even know the full circumstances of and who was at a fault would really change their consideration.
And similar stuff probably weren't that uncommon.
It's not like Hermes was infallible and that nothing could ever go wrong, Hythlodaeus was almost attacked by a shark monster and Hermes fell and broke his back on a tree lol all on the same day with not much time between.
And also Emet was there, for all they knew maybe Emet screwed up? Why couldn't he have stopped it?
Should his position be questioned too?

I just don't think this actually matters that much, for all we know there was an investigation but I don't think it's something that would've changed anything so it's not really worth spending time on.

Edit: I don't disagree it's shady but Venat would basically be the main suspect but ultimately there's no proof against her, she may as well just say that she had other business and left earlier or something ( or teleported out ) who knows.
It would've been nice to get some quick mention I guess but I don't think this is as big of a deal as it's being made out to be tbh.

Hermes would still be accepted and at worst Venat might be questioned, I doubt they just sentence people without evidence tho especially a former convocation member.
And I think it'd be pretty unbelievable to everyone involved that Venat would've done anything to hurt them or was up to no good.
It'd be easier to believe it was just a freak accident.