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

[DevonEllwood]

I haven't caught up reading since Sunday, but I remember someone mentioning the Ra-la story and how humanity wanted to end itself and kind of said, so what? And after thinking about that, that's really how Venat and the rest of the Ancients differed. The Ancients were wholly in belief they were in service to the star down to re-cycling their souls and and Elidibus's case, completely destroying his soul for a chance to save the star. Some people see the "returning to the star" as them not valuing their own live, which I don't see as the case. They just value the star above their own existence. So would they go the way of Ra-la story? Maybe. They would have felt they did all they could for the star and returned to it, leaving the next set of lives to possibly take over, just like some were suggesting before the third Zodiark summon. Venat was just the opposite of the Ancients. She put so much value into mankind to the point where she was willing to leave the star and its reflections to its fate just to save a small portion of mankind. Is this an Azem thing? I personally don't care for humanity as a whole, I care about the individual. This may be why I can't relate to Venat at all and her being stuck on "humanity's potential" confuses me. There's probably some philosophical terms about this, someone will have to help me out.

I guess my questions are how did Venat's mentality come to be since it's pretty different than the rest of her people? Were there other like her? How did the Ancients come to feel so connected to their planet? Is it alive as some people have theorized? It seems like a very Final fantasy thing to do. Maybe the sound beneath the surface was just the planet reacting to Meteion's song.

There was a way Venat could have helped with her information, but she had no interest in it. The lines "don't want to cause a panic" and "don't want to make Hermes an enemy" were just excuses. She had already decided she wanted the Final days to happen. She wanted to take advantage of it to get the results she wanted for humanity. Unfortunately she doesn't have the Alpanaud genes in the ability to "rally the people".