I meant doomed in terms of if it hadn't been Hermes or Venat it would've been someone. Ironically, between the two of them (and depending on where Pandemonium goes) The Plenty is seeming like the best case scenario. :P

Venat merely kicked the can down the road and in the 8UC timeline her plan abysmally failed. The narrative tries to insist that the sundering was beneficial and the sundered are superior to the unsundered, yet never sufficiently makes that case. This is the problem with making everything revolve around the WoL. Had the WoL tripped and fallen off the edge of Ishgard it'd be game over for everyone, which is ridiculous.