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

[KageTokage]

I don't know what it is with streamers getting hoodwinked (tempered? :P) by the post-Elpis cutscene. Even ones who echo our sentiments leading up to that point suddenly turn heel and become #TeamHydaelyn. The only exception I've seen was Zepla, who was thoroughly pissed off at the end of Elpis, but has since changed her tune. They may have tried to portray Venat as some sort of tragic heroine, but anyone with a lick of sense would know she brought that upon herself unnecessarily and at the cost of everyone else.

Emotions can be highly effective at drowning out logic and reason.

I honestly fell into the same trap and it wasn't until I watched someone else doing the segment that I really realized how much of Venat's reasoning just feels like excuses and that she was already set on having history repeat itself in regards to the parts she knew the details of.

I particularly didn't buy into the thought that telling the Convocation about the Final Days would've somehow thrown things into disarray and made it harder for them to have fought back against the first coming of the Final Days.