Is the WoL actually good though?

[Kolsykol]

The WoL does some pretty screwed up stuff, especially early on in ARR.
One of the first dungeons is us going into a mine and slaughtering slaves, and then we come back later and kill the distraught father of the last boss.

The faction leaders are kinda screwed up too, Merlwyb and the Kobols is a good example of that and like she said herself in EW it was recent and ongoing history.
Honestly tho this is how it is irl too, lots of morally grey or kinda scummy things from the other pov.
I'd say the WoL is flawed but has a good heart.
Thinking back I think there's a lot of stuff the WoL would probably have done differently or not at all.

Estinien is another good example too imo, I wouldn't exactly say he was a very good person in Heavensward but it was hiding inside him and it came out over the course of the story.
It doesn't undo all of the hate that was his existence before but dwelling on it too much doesn't exactly help either.

I don't think having selfish motivations for getting into a career makes you a bad person. You are only a bad person if your selfish motivations make you do bad things in pursuit of said motivations. And whose to say that we don't move to more altruistic reasonings once we become a major player in international politics. When we say we were after fame/power/money, we were a literal nobody, not the hero of eorzea.

Tbh I'd say that's a good motivation in most cases lol.
I think too many people settle for careers they hate because they don't, your career is something you'll spend the majority of your life on if you can't be selfish about that then what?
I think everyone owe it to themselves to be selfish about it, and ultimately if I go to see a doctor I'd rather see a doctor who chose the line of work because it's what they genuinely wanted to do and love not because their parents told them to.