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

[NanaWiloh]

Bad rabbits! No paradise! No perfection and happiness! Why do they wish such horror upon the people of Eitherys?!

Their rabbits and they are overly eager, quick someone find Elmer Fudd its rabbit season.

[Caurcas]

Running round the ring. A serpent of thread eating its own tail.

[Brinne]

Lv.88 MSQ Agriculture Shock - Cookingway:
Once a civilization has fulfilled the basic requirements for survival, it will inevitably seek to eliminate all forms of negativity and achieve perfection.
And therein lies its folly...and its downfall.
For perfection is an unattainable ideal. 'Tis the paradox of the immaculate carrot.
Yet civilizations since time immemorial have deemed the pursuit of perfection as “progress.” They pay no heed to the costs incurred in their futile quest, and all too often become the architects of their own demise, their dreams forever unfulfilled.

Putting aside this nonsense, inaccurate caricature description of the Ancients, the Ancients did not cause their own downfall. They were not the architects of their own demise. They were murdered.

What, then, is the alternative? The answer lies in knowing that our existence can never be perfect. To be content with what we have and make the most of it.

Seriously, does anyone know good recipes for rabbit? It's not a protein I'm very familiar with.

Sorry to belabor the point. The old flames of incoherent rage are stirring within me again from rereading that speech.

[aveyond-dreams]

I still find it shocking how the moon felt like 90% rabbits and only 10% Zodiark. I loved the Hummingways from FFIV but the Loporrits took up way too much screentime, both there and in Labyrinthos. This is in stark contrast to the Pixies, which they were quick to get us away from in Shadowbringers, yet who were objectively more entertaining.

[Lauront]

Putting aside this nonsense, inaccurate caricature description of the Ancients, the Ancients did not cause their own downfall. They were not the architects of their own demise. They were murdered.

Indeed, it's almost like that is discussing the Plenty rather than them. Almost. Guess this bunny should go inform the Scions to cease this pursuit of a brighter, better tomorrow; it's not progress, after all, and they pay no heed to the costs incurred in their futile quest, and will become architects of their own demise, their own dreams forever unfulfilled.

[tokinokanatae]

It's all well and good to say that you have to accept an imperfect existence--after all, none of us live perfect lives--but it is a bit rich to be lectured by bunnies as though anyone knows the perfect stopping point in the pursuit of perfection. How is a civilization to know when they've gone too far? Shouldn't we just accept the lemons as they are instead of seeking to improve them?

"Oh no, by allowing little Timmy to walk again after the industrial accident, you have actually upset the delicate Misery Balance of our planet! We're doomed!!"

[Rulakir]

I don't know what we're going to do without another Venat to make the executive decision to sunder everyone and end civilization because we might be several thousand years from wanting to die from boredom.

[CrownySuccubus]

It's all well and good to say that you have to accept an imperfect existence--after all, none of us live perfect lives--but it is a bit rich to be lectured by bunnies as though anyone knows the perfect stopping point in the pursuit of perfection. How is a civilization to know when they've gone too far? Shouldn't we just accept the lemons as they are instead of seeking to improve them?

"Oh no, by allowing little Timmy to walk again after the industrial accident, you have actually upset the delicate Misery Balance of our planet! We're doomed!!"

Brings a specific comic to my mind:

"Me invent wheel."

"You am play gods!"

Bad rabbits! No paradise! No perfection and happiness! Why do they wish such horror upon the people of Eitherys?!

Yeah, this is a consistent problem I've noticed for any story that wants to preach the folly of reaching for perfection and yet also wants to reaffirm the morality of altruism. You want me to have feels about helping people in need, but you also want to say no one should want for better? What?

So then, where is the magic line between improving other peoples' lives for the better and simply accepting and making the most of one's suffering? Mayhaps we indulged in purest hubris when we developed a cure for Tempering after 12 millennium. If only we had learned to make the most of it and simply rested our weary souls in Lakshmi's bosom.

[Brinne]

Also, the sheer insult of what's fundamentally a spokesperson for Venat proclaiming that her victims, that were killed by her, were actually, alas, so sadly, "the architects of their own demise." Wh--how could you even--how dare--ahhh, flames. Flames on the side of my head. Cookingway worst character in the game by a mile.

[Lauront]

So then, where is the magic line between improving other peoples' lives for the better and simply accepting and making the most of one's suffering?

Yes, as G'raha proclaims "I won't lose them… not a one. This will be a brighter future." It just sits so weirdly together.