Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
You realize that after the sundering the sundered are now susceptible to becoming like both the first and second areas of the dead ends right? Those two would’ve been an impossibility for the ancients but they are now a major possibility for the sundered. 2 is worse than 1.
Agreed, I think EW is fairly clear on communicating that there is just an inevitable end to any given civilisation. Like even if you successfully dodge all of the problems we see mentioned in the report or dead ends, you're still susceptible to stuff we see in UT. The dragons didn't actually do anything to bring about their fate, and the Ea both solved all of their material concerns and clearly had a strong drive towards understanding and learning as much as they could, but reality is just a hard barrier sometimes.

I don't think the expac was intending to say that the sundered are somehow immune to bad endings, ignoring some of the weird takes the scions give while turning into the floor (Yshtola was particularly weird). Venats motivation seems to just be entirely focused on the sadness bird blues, not on ensuring society will continue on forever. If she was focused on the latter I think you're 100% correct that the ancients would last much longer, just because they're so much harder to kill. the only real external threat to them would be the omicron.

Also ngl, I think the plenty are by far the best fate we're shown, like they all seem perfectly happy to just stop existing. As far as apocalypses go I'd pick that over basically anything else.