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

[Aniya_Estlihn]

You apparently missed the Neir crossover where it very clearly showed that it was far more than "their beings were split and they retained their identities" because that very clearly showed they didn't. The entire society on all 14 shards was rendered to the stone age, they did not even possess language for several hundred years after. It was, in all respects, a genocide. By the way, that crossover is considered canon.

Very well, if it's canon and I missed out on some pertinent information that should have been in the game, I'll concede I was wrong. However, going on the information provided in the game's narrative itself, which is what most will use to discuss the narrative; and not some worthless crossover that most aren't going to even recognize the existence of after the poor reception of Dark Apocalypse, you cannot fault me for still having held the same opinion and understanding that the game had presented—in a voiced scene no less— during Shadowbringers' main narrative.

I will argue, however, that is is a blatant retcon that spits in the face of and contradicts the narrative of Shadowbringers.
Which is just... lovely... I'm glad this arc is over, to hells with it and its yo-yoing continuity that they feel can be altered ad nauseum every time a new detail is "revealed."

I still will never see Venat as a villain, nor the ancients or convocation—they were humans prioritizing survival over all else. You cannot fault them for that.
I will, however, fault the inconsistencies between the narrative presented in game and a canon crossover in a game so removed from the narrative that it's almost insulting.