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

[tokinokanatae]

Venat didn't. We also don't know everything that Hermes contributed, just that one main point.

If she didn't know then I'm surprised she can remember anything, considering we explained it to her twice. Also, it is possible that Hermes was key to the Zodiark defense in some way or another, but what if without him, they could bypass Zodiark all together?

Because one of those world leaders could potentially oppose you when unity is what's needed.

Was it dumb when the WoL then came back from the moon and explained to all the world leaders what had happened, including the one that had been directly hostile and a hindrance to their goals?

[linayar]

If she didn't know then I'm surprised she can remember anything, considering we explained it to her twice.

Are we talking about the same thing here? It is impossible for us to tell Venat everything that Hermes did to help because we weren't there.

Also, it is possible that Hermes was key to the Zodiark defense in some way or another, but what if without him, they could bypass Zodiark all together?

Interesting idea, but I don't think Venat wanted Hermes's help specifically for Zodiark.

Was it dumb when the WoL then came back from the moon and explained to all the world leaders what had happened, including the one that had been directly hostile and a hindrance to their goals?

I think so and I still say that time travel was a terrible idea, but that has nothing to do with Venat.

If you want to talk about the problems with time travel, I don't have much to say other than I hope they don't use it again.