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

[AziraSyuren]

Like, I'm sorry. I don't like Venat/Hydaelyn's logic, either, but you guys are starting to go too far with the torches-and-pitchfork mob now.

It's a case of disappointment stinging worse than low expectations.

I think the emotional response to Hermes vs Venat, in terms of anger and culpability, gets a bit more complex when Hermes's contribution to the "murder" essentially revolved around an impulse moment of psychotic breakdown. He did not consciously intend to end up in that position, and his response to Meteion's report, and Emet's reaction to it, seemed to be something of a snap decision. (Once again, Amon is a bit of a different story, of course.) There's room to speculate on how things may have turned out if he hadn't (in very cowardly fashion) wiped his own memory and had time to cool his head, along with, ideally, mental and emotionally support.

Venat could be seen as far more deliberate and premeditative.

I think there's a lot of cause to believe that Venat snapped in much the same way. It doesn't excuse her actions, but That Cutscene and the dialogue after the fight with Hyedalyn made it look like it was a spur of the moment decision, or at least one born of desperation.