What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[jameseoakes]

The flaw with this argument should be obvious: where is the magical line where progress should be halted? Should human beings go back to sleeping on rocks and hunting for our meals? Should we surrender all medical progress and go back to letting diabetics who need insulin to live die without it?

Yeah that's been a lot of my problem with Venat, the suffering she inflicts is very uneven and petty and doesn't really seem to be about character building most of it is just people leading intentionally short painful lives and the people that care about them being broken by the grief. the game kept pushing that love angle but Venat is so abusive with it, and she doesn't seem to actually care for anyone....she's just horrible

The usual cop-out answer to this is "Of course not. But we should strengthen our society to be ready for the inevitable moment that we DO lose these comforts." And sure, that COULD and probably WILL happen at some point in humanity's future, but....so what? How exactly do I prepare for a world in which my relative, who has survived on insulin for 40 years, dies because the apocalypse made finding that medicine impossible? By not giving it to them?

I also find it odd that the culture that most seem to meet this ideology is the Garleans and the game has spent most of it time demonising there culture and the brutality there suffering caused them to turn to.