Would Endwalker have been better if we never visited Elpis at all?

[jameseoakes]

And that's a core belief that you have. So someone with that belief will, of course, take issue with a story that preaches the opposite. That is not an example of bad writing, it's just disagreeing with the message. There's plenty of bad writing examples you can poke at. But disagreeing with the message of the story is not an example of the writings doing their job badly.

The way it tells it is terrible it spends no meaningful time on it, it sets up a terrible time loop sets up some dross characters to drive the narrative and then gaslights it's audience. Tell me how this was well written how it sets up Venats actions in any good sense, it's not well written if you have to believe that suffering is a universal good, which I think is a monstrous ideology to hold and honestly I'll take it with pride that I think story of Venat is one of a hellish monster fit to be the true villain of the story