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

[Lauront]

It's come up before but the thing I found most annoying was the UT Emet-Selch commentary where he's trying to compliment her, but it's worded so awkwardly in the EN version, that it's taken to dismiss out of hand the notion that anything could've been done differently or that the ancients could've charted a better way given more information. I saw it as them parasitising on his popularity to lend her credibility. It worked to some extent, I guess.

[Rulakir]

Listen, at least in the scenes I played, Venat was nice to me and smiled at me and played a nice song about how I was her brave little spark and talked at length about how much she loved me and how I was her light the future. Meanwhile, did you see Azem's soul being torn apart? No? Then it's moot, okay? <_<

My brain doesn't work like this. D: It's also why I hate Urianger. His duplicity has led to harm to my character more than once, I want him off my team. I don't care what he's like now, he can't be trusted.

I saw it as them parasitising on his popularity to lend her credibility. It worked to some extent, I guess.

No doubt. I can only hope Ishikawa wasn't directly responsible for that dialog or, if she was, she was hate-writing it. Elidibus was more bitter and he didn't even know the truth of it all.