I don't like how either party chose to handle things, but it's easier to sympathize with the Ascians because their reasons are much more relatable then Venat's weird ideology that seems to contradict her actions at times.

For all the preaching about "not losing hope", it felt like she had already dismissed her people as a lost cause by the time we had left Elpis. She knew the Final Days was the catalyst that would send them down a dark path, but decided against telling the single most qualified group of people for averting disasters about it despite further foreknowledge they would eventually go on to become her worst enemies if things were allowed to play out the same way.