Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
The problem with Endwalker was that it attached a causal loop to one of the most fundamental far-reaching events in the game's lore that shaped the world and the motivations of several characters in ways both direct and indirect.

It also left a very ugly question hanging in the air of just how much Venat/Hydaelyn knew was going to happen and just let it happen because "the future said so", and makes some instances where she claims have been trying to prevent tragedy (Such as with the First and the flood of light) feel like she was going through the motions because it had to happen in order to maintain the loop.

I feel like it cheapened a lot of the decisions made by various characters in general. IE, the context for Emet-Selch saving us from Elidibus was no longer just a matter of him having been convinced to place faith in us and the sundered; nope, he already knew us personally beforehand and that we were to be instrumental in stopping the Final Days.
I think I’ve made my feelings on the “she made sure things happened as we described” reading clear elsewhere so I’m gonna let that bear lie. What I will ask however is why is the ambiguity really a problem? It isn’t necessary to understand to make sense of the plot, as having several wildly different interpretations that all can work shows that it’s not a requirement for the story. It’s not a failure of the writing when it’s meant to be up for interpretation then, which given Yoshi Ps comments it seems it was meant to be. So what’s the issue?