Suffering can be a vital component in inspiration.

Consider G'raha Tia and the Ironworks, who deviced the means to time travel and teleport people across the shards.
Consider Hermes, who became knowledgeable of an extremely vital yet very much unknown source of energy.

Neither of these things were achieveable without a considerable amount of suffering. Neither of these were things that ancients were extremely privy to either, as in time travel and dynamis. And in the case of time travel, why would ancients want to partake in such when they cannot fathom the idea of a calamity so massive that would require time travel. The acknowledgment of pain, suffering and things going horribly wrong is a great source of inspiration.

Perhaps accepting suffering as inevitable and something that can cause even the mightiest of ancients to falter, it would've inspired creations, technology and feats that would've influenced the way they tackled the Final Days, and upped the threshold of limited inspiration. But that is purely speculation.