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

[PawPaw]

In that long Famitsu interview, there's a bit that wasn't translated directly where Yoshida actually goes into how he thought players would leave Elpis thinking the Ancient society was "scary" - listing all the reasons he figured they'd be a little disturbing - but that instead, most people came away with thinking they were just "good people" instead.

I am just as baffled by this as I was at hearing that he was surprised at people liking Emet-Selch while not liking Hermes and that being something he couldn't wrap his head around.

taking it upon themselves to create beings even with souls, feeling it's better to erase creations that are slightly flawed.

Also..."slightly" flawed? Putting the Charybdis aside, because I could see the argument for not giving up on them, but was I supposed to feel terrible about their reverting the animals that were killing everything? If an animal in our world was doing this in a neighborhood, no one would hesitate to call in Animal Control to handle the threat. Why in the name of all the gods would I feel that it was scary and inhuman for people to protect others from a group of dangerous animals that have already been given chances and continue to be a threat to the environment?