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

[MikkoAkure]

As for his fellow Unsundered calling him "an idiot", you'll have to refresh my memory on that. Reckless and brash, yes; burning himself out from overly enthusiastic body hopping, yes; but insulting him? Perhaps Emet-Selch did, because Emet-Selch is a grumpy jerk with a heart of gold whose thoughts tend to be kinder than what comes out of his mouth, tsundere that he is.

Emet-Selch: "Thanks to Lahabrea's crowning act of idiocy, our favorite Emissary saw it fit to bring me back"

To be fair, he also has low opinions of the other Ascians. He calls Igeyorhm impetuous before going on about how her failings changed the way they had to act (the void) and in the same breath says Mitron and Loghrif were expendable.

EN doing its own weird thing while FR and DE stick much closer to the original JP –, I'd rather trust the latter on that one.

All of the game's versions are made at the same time. There's no "original JP". One game's language version does not trump the others and the EN localizers are on the lore team. All of the translations are worked out together and this isn't a case where the Japanese version is first made and then all others separately copy it in different ways.

Anyway, I would much rather have a three-dimensional fallible but human jerk rather than the cardboard cutout you are making him out to be. But can I really blame you for having such a take? This is, after all, Endwalker we are talking about, where nuance goes to die and the antagonists are definitely wrong and their society a horrible cryptodystopia. You might as well be perfectly right – and I will hate it all the way.

I'd like for Lahabrea and all characters to have more nuance. But Lahabrea's 2-dimensional portrayal goes further back than Endwalker so I wouldn't exactly get your hopes up.