Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
It's amusing to me that for all the talk of 'hubris' where immortal beings are concerned the same lazy caricatures are brought out to try and justify the removal of an innate trait associated with non-human entities. How interesting that, quite often, this is ordinarily considered to be a red line that should never be crossed - though only, mysteriously, in certain scenarios.

Personally, as a gay guy, I certainly wouldn't approve of someone deciding to 'fix' me by adjusting my sexuality. Equally, if I were immortal I imagine I would be equally opposed to someone who lives comparatively as long as an insect deciding that they needed to 'fix' me by removing my immortality.

It's actually pretty unsettling to think about.

Thankfully we already know from the Omega side quests that the immortality of the Ancients was never an actual factor of note in terms of overcoming despair. We saw Ancients do as much and create a solution - Venat simply didn't like it and wanted to masquerade as a 'supreme deity' to the Sundered.
Hiding behind a net of aether while the main issue speeds up the heat death of the universe(granted they didn't know that at the time) isn't really a solution. They just treated the symptom and were content to leave it at that. We also know in their current form they couldn't do anything about the disease itself.