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

[KizuyaKatogami]

- Being an Ascian fanatic, I was a little letdown by how easily Zodiark was taken down: However, if you paid attention to the rest of the story you would know why it was all important that it happens.
- I'm glad you've never been so depressed you just want to watch the world burn, you alongside it.
- Venat knew that the ancients couldn't defeat a being made of nearly pure Dynamis: Considering the ancients were composed of such vast amounts of aether. Again, if you paid attention, the more aether one has, the less they are able to interact with dynamis: Meaning the ancients couldn't have defeated Meteion even if they were able to reach her. Yet a secondary reason why Venat chose to sunder mankind. Their aether was basically 1/13th of what it used to be: Allowing them a better connection with dynamis and ultimately, making Meteion's defeat possible.

It's not bad writing: You have bad reading comprehension or a short attention span.

Except as we’ve been shown, they’re able of creating entities that can manipulate it. Outside of that; Zodiark shielded them for 12,000+ years. He was able to fend her off for that long and who knows how much longer he could have lasted. Within enough time and if Venat had actually given them said knowledge, who knows what they could have been capable of, we will never know because Venat had no hope in her people and ruined their lives against their consent.

Regarding the whole 1/13ths btw, are we going to just disregard the wol is able to do it and is 9/14th lol