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

[CrownySuccubus]

The other aspect I find utterly baffling in regards to the approach to the Ancients being "scary" is - look at the world we live in, and actually look at the Sundered world. It's hilarious that they actually expected us to be outraged over the Ancients being willing to "take life" when they see it as justified - let alone the demonstrations of this being butterflies and an out-of-control murder wolf. Meanwhile, here I am, checking my leatherbound planner, using my communication technology whose materials are almost certainly produced in highly unethical and inhumane ways, thinking about what meat I want to unnecessarily and indulgently consume for my evening meal later on. If a spider dares show its face while I am doing this, I will crush it, for it does not belong in the perfect space I want in my room. And I consider myself a relatively harmless, benign person who doesn't actually engage in violent crime, hunting for sport, actively participating in or beginning wars, etc. Either they didn't think this through at all, or this premise is coming from an incredibly sheltered place, or both. The only way I can make any sense of people uncritically going along with these premises is if they were pre-disposed to look for any reason to justify the demise of the Ancients, and pin the blame for their slaughter as "their own fault."

Yeah, that's what made the scene with the petaluda, where the game godmods our WOL into being "shocked" about Hyth's actions, so weird. These quotes put it in better words than I can:

This was so strange to me as well, I remember thinking "...OK? Thanks for the robe, man!" It was so awkward that this was clearly meant to be a moment where the writers assumed I'd be horrifically offended; but I wasn't at all, nor did I think that my character, who murders animals all of the time for FUN and PROFIT would be rattled in any way. She definitely would not be be judging others for it. I was also obviously supposed to be utterly offended at being called a "thing" but again, who the hell cares? To them I was a creature unlike any they had ever seen before. I look nothing like them or the humans they know, not even like any familiars they know, so there's no reason for them to see me as anything but an unusual entity. The attempts to move me to Twitter levels of outrage over the way the Ancients viewed life were clumsy as shit.

I mean I was doing the sidequests on a reaper, with an avatar sidekick that devours the souls of beings for fuel, and did the main quests with a relic weapon forged from crystallised misery, having routinely partaken in the outdoors slaughterfests known as fates. At this point, if they're expecting me to take the character's "shock" seriously, it just paints them as delusional.

Right? "Pardon me, my good fellows, I must take my leave as apparently there is an S-Rank beast in this zone that needs to be attacked and murdered for no real reason AND I'd like to get the orchestration roll for Elpis so I'll need to follow that up with the mass slaughter of every animal that I find within these pink spots on my map. You guys are so cruel to arcane entities though, btw, do better. Cheerio!"

My lvl 90 LTW WoL: "Wow, very efficient! Cutting out the middleman."