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

[Rulakir]

That's just it -- according to the writers themselves, they didn't intend EITHER of them to be considered "bad". They use terms like "mistake" and "important first step" to describe Hermes' actions. To the writers, the Ancients are not a group of people unfairly and unjustly murdered, they're a group of wannabe gods that thought themselves above suffering and death before being ready for it.

I'd accept that if the Ascians weren't presented as being wholly in the wrong even as recently as the Omega quest chain. Meanwhile, history's two biggest antagonists are a "first step" and a "herois". It seems like if it happened to the Ancients? It's fine, they deserved it. Did it happen to the sundered? Unforgivable atrocities.

Note, I'm not trying to say the Ascians were right. I'm simply saying they set a precedent that is inconsistent with what came after despite the crimes of the Final Days and the Sundering being far more egregious.

I missed this. When/where did this happen?

You can find the character poll link here along with some of the translated comments.