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

[Droxybrobotnik]

No that doesn't make sense, since you actually need a lot of positivity to push through the bad times. If the despair increases then so does the feelings of hope and determination, remember, all emotions, there is no implication anywhere that her powers to absorb every feeling was altered or in any respect dimmer, and given that she had the mental capacity of an entire collective she should very much have been able to understand why people do choose to go on. I'm not debating that she developed a fatalistic viewpoint, what I am debating is that the concepts that enables people to power through the worst of times seemed so alien and meaningless to her. Like the concept of personal battle and triumph just did not exist. It's just weird and whiny in the end, and hilariously self righteous. They ultimately put an immature kid in a position of power with nothing but a hopped up teen emo perspective, it doesn't make for a compelling villain

[CrownySuccubus]

No that doesn't make sense, since you actually need a lot of positivity to push through the bad times. If the despair increases then so does the feelings of hope and determination, remember, all emotions, there is no implication anywhere that her powers to absorb every feeling was altered or in any respect dimmer, and given that she had the mental capacity of an entire collective she should very much have been able to understand why people do choose to go on. I'm not debating that she developed a fatalistic viewpoint, what I am debating is that the concepts that enables people to power through the worst of times seemed so alien and meaningless to her. Like the concept of personal battle and triumph just did not exist. It's just weird and whiny in the end, and hilariously self righteous. They ultimately put an immature kid in a position of power with nothing but a hopped up teen emo perspective, it doesn't make for a compelling villain

Well, you just touched upon one of the core fallacies and nonsensical issues with the premise of Endwalker. The very nature of Ultima Thule and the Endsinger makes the argument that the emotional weight of an entire civilization is only has relevance in its final generation. Imagine if we judged the worth of the Roman Empire ONLY by those who were present when it was sacked. Or the Byzantine Empire ONLY after its people were conquered and slaughtered by the Ottomans. We're supposed to believe that because the natives of the Americas were enslaved, driven out and ultimately subjected to genocide by European settlers, that the older generations might as well never lived at all. That we living in the present day must secretly yearn for death just because at some point, some generation of humanity will be the last one.

This has to be true in FFXIV's world or else Ultima Thule couldn't exist.