Given Ishikawa rewrote the story without input like the retreat version had, I’d say Endwalker is closer to what she imagined than what Yoshi P or the rest of the team initially conceived of.

And let’s not get it twisted. Ishikawa firmly agrees that Hermes helped lay the foundation for the world that comes later, and even goes far enough to say it’s not simple whether he and Meteion are good or bad. Referring to what Hermes did as a mistake and not an evil act is telling I think.