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The point of the comparision is 'let's take this terrible action and then soften it by portraying the victims as strawman crazies and its perpetrator(s) as sad and somber about it'. Also, as of EW, her back is not really against the wall, not anymore, because... time loop, she knew everything.
Wait hold on, where are the ancients portrayed as strawman lunatics? Where was Zenos ever sad and somber about what he did? The more we interacted with the ancients the more the wol understands that they werent lunatics disconnected from reality but loving and diligent people. This is the beast tribe treatment all over again.

Her back was always against the wall, knowledge of the coming demise does not stop it already. Her options were: tell the ancients about it again (and risk hermes betraying them again and consigning the wol's world to oblivion) or dont tell them and instead work for a contingency plan for the wol's crew to handle the situation (consigning the ancients' world to oblivion). A situation she had reason to believe we were much better equipped to handle than the society of the ancients because of the nature of the threat at hand. As powerful as they were, they were not well equipped to face up against despair itself.