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

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Sure, it could've been an effort to paint the ancients as morally grey. But from my perspective, I thought that the game director's intention was to really drive home the point that Elpis and its occupants are scientists that experiment with living organisms, and not necessarily to portray the entire ancients civilization as morally grey.


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I don't really think I said anything elaborate.

It's probably not elaborate for you, but for the writing team that worked on EW? Yeah, it just might be.