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

[RyuDragnier]

No...I really don't care. In what headspace could I possibly justify my single life being more valuable than an entire planet's and generations of people yet to be born? Also, just to clarify, this is not real and is all make-believe. If this scenario happened in any form of media that I was consuming, I would laugh and shut the book, turn off the TV, leave the theatre, whatever. And then I'd leave a scathing review of the media. It's just that bad.

I think I see the issue here...you're currently believing it was only for YOUR life. It was not...it was for the lives of all that would follow, not just yours. The Ancients in the flashbacks showed they were willing to sacrifice newer life (meaning essentially children) to safeguard their own way of life. Venat and the ones with her who summoned Hydaelyn were against that, feeling that they should do everything in their power to leave things to the newer life and safeguard them.

[redheadturk]

I think I see the issue here...you're currently believing it was only for YOUR life. It was not...it was for the lives of all that would follow, not just yours. The Ancients in the flashbacks showed they were willing to sacrifice newer life (meaning essentially children) to safeguard their own way of life. Venat and the ones with her who summoned Hydaelyn were against that, feeling that they should do everything in their power to leave things to the newer life and safeguard them.

New life could have been plants, animals, or familiars as far as we know. And they had as much right to feed their familiars to Zodiark as we do to slaughter cattle for food.

[PawPaw]

I think I see the issue here...you're currently believing it was only for YOUR life. It was not...it was for the lives of all that would follow, not just yours. The Ancients in the flashbacks showed they were willing to sacrifice newer life (meaning essentially children) to safeguard their own way of life. Venat and the ones with her who summoned Hydaelyn were against that, feeling that they should do everything in their power to leave things to the newer life and safeguard them.

No..no they did not. We actually have no idea what the third sacrifice would entail but there is no reason to believe that it wouldn't have been arcane entities such as those we came across in Elpis. The writers have chosen to leave this ambiguous for some reason, but absolutely nowhere is it stated that human lives would be sacrificed to facilitate the return of the lives in Zodiark. And that doesn't change my stance. No, my single life and existence is not worth the destruction of a world. And you assume that Zodiark needed to exist at all. We have no idea what might have happened if the Ancients had actually been told about the dangers facing them before everything went to hell. All we have is the thought process of a single person who thought she knew what was best for everyone on the planet.