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

[Brinne]

I'm not really sure how comfortable I am filing it away under "it's a Japanese thing" in this case. I understand the importance of cultural context when judging work, but I'd also want to be careful about blanket statements or essentialization of their culture, too. I certainly won't pretend to be an expert in it - but I can say that, I know that there are at least some JP fans who object to Venat on similar grounds as us, and that over way too many years of enjoying Japanese media, the dissonance/potentially cultural disconnect in this specific regard has very rarely hit me as egregiously as it has here. And this particular form of, to be blunt, abuse apologism, is hardly unfamiliar to the West.