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

[YukikoKurosawa]

Perhaps I misinterpreted it, maybe many Ancients still died and some remained but were left sundered. Either way.

She literally couldn't do anything but what she did because she knew doing anything else would mess up the timeline and you would cease to exist. There was no avoiding what she did because paradox. Like you can get mad but she legitimately could not do anything else unless you would've preferred to be erased along with your entire timeline from existence. While that also means that she is responsible for what Emet did there is nothing she could've done to avoid that without completley messing with the time-loop because by the time you even go back into the past and meet her, you have already wiped out the Ascians. Anything that happened up until the point where you go back to Elpis and tell past-Venat everything would still have to have happened. I don't know how this wasn't explicity clear, she could not have done anything different because time paradox.

Also it's very clear the writers want you to sympathize with and like Emet, even in ShB 5.0 that was made clear by the end, only further reinforced since then and with any and all subtly removed in EW. You literally have a scene where you stretch out your arm longingly towards Emet as you are forced to flee ktisis hyperboreia. It's not even subtle. He is blatantly whitewashed. If you dislike how Venat was excused, than I don't know how you can be okay with Emet's treatment by the writers, who is orders of magnitude worse. Emet doesn't have the excuse she did, while yes he had good reason it still doesn't make what he did justified. The amount of lives Venat may have ended and the suffering she caused does not remotely compare to the amount of death Emet is directly responsible for. He is responsible for the deaths of Minfilia, Moenbryda, and arguably Paplymo. Just off the top of my head. And by the end of the story you're all cool with him.

If you wanted an option to tell Venat to piss off, I don't see how you aren't clamoring for the same option towards Emet, especially when he said "Remember that we once lived". My entire point is you cannot be angry with Venat or how the arguable moral dissonance of how the writers handled her than be perfectly fine with Emet and how the writers handled him. Either way it just comes down to "character did a bad". And all I can think is "okay." They're both dead now. You killed both of them. One of them, the one you're angry with, is super dead. What else do you want?