Honestly, after watching Pyromancer go through the Elpis scenes again, I can't help but think that Venat AGREED with Hermes's test to an extent. Her own personal concerns with how the ancients viewed the world and the fear of the world turning into those that Metion mentioned. Even in the sundering cut scene when she confronts a group of ancients, in an almost pleading and bargaining sort of way, she tell them "if we would live, we must accept it(despair) as our constant companion". When they denied it, they failed not only Hermes and Metion's test, but her own, and thus were sundered. Especially knowing through our stories we tell her that the humanity that existed in the future thrived even despite the grievous amounts of despair and disasters. IF the future of all Utopia's is to eventually all die out like those Metion discovered, then it was assumed the best bet was to destroy Utopia. Kick Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden so to speak. Not saying it's right, or justified, just a point that sits well in my head cannon.