Quote Originally Posted by AziraSyuren View Post
Imagine how much easier the Sundering would've been to swallow if Ancient society was, at its core, nearly as unpleasant as the Garlean society was. It wouldn't have been morally justified but it wouldn't have been as bad as the whole "throwing away a perfect society for bad reasons" thing.
That'd just be strange to me, since the Garleans were only in the position they were in out of necessity as a consequence of being targeted for genocide throughout much of their own history. Furthermore, they didn't have the plot convenience of a Warrior of Light to wander their lands and conveniently solve every issue before it festered into something that required getting one's hands very dirty in order to deal with.

The Sundering was a stupid move in general and I don't think any society 'deserved' to be wiped out. Even the Allagan Empire had good people living within it during the height of its decadence.

Endwalker in general has a pretty weird take on the concept of 'suffering' and 'moving on', though.

More than anything, rather than hide away the nuance established for Garlemald in optional side quests they could have simply pushed more of it front and centre. Though then the writers would need to admit that the 'gOoD gUyS' aren't so perfect and are selfish when it comes to forcing their ideals onto everybody else...which is why we ended up getting the likes of that idiotic strawman scene at the end of Elpis that reduced complexities to 'I can't accept it! I won't accept it!'.