The Ancients still deserved better, after everything

[Jojoya]

Tldr; the Ancients are my true people

Your glamour says otherwise. What a shameful public display of individuality.

Endwalker was one big nightmare for me that forced me to commit virtual genocide

You never committed any genocide. You did, however, stop multiple genocides from happening.

Your "true people", on the other hand, have committed multiple genocides over the millenia. How many billions were lost through their actions?

offend my moral values,

People's personal moral values are always going to get offended by one thing or another.

wank the other person responsible the whole ride

What? That makes no sense unless there's some new urban definition for "wank" I can't find on google.

and generally commit numerous crimes on my person at the hands of Square Enix.

No one has committed any crimes on your person, at least in context of the game. I have no idea what's going on with you in real life but I'm fairly certain SE has nothing to do with any of it.

*****

I feel like a lot of players are starting to idealize Ancient society without paying any attention to what few clues we have about what it was really like.

We've really only seen it from the viewpoint of the Amaurot ruling class and those who serve a specific portion of the ruling class. We have no idea what the common citizen's life was actually like or how they felt. Were they actually happy with the rigid suppression of individuality, where the only way to express one's self seems to be coming up with even more outlandish, and potentially dangerous, concepts via creation magick?

We also know nothing about the other civilizations on Etheirys at the time of the original Final Days. We know others existed - the debate side quest in Amaurot mentions them.