My entire problem with endwalker centres on Elpis, time travel of the WOL back to Elpis essentially removes the choice of any antagonist except Hermes and renders almost the entire lore meaningless, everything- venat’s actions, the ascians, the unsundered, the scions, it has all been reduced to “fulfilment of the conditions required to send the WOL back to Elpis”

Elpis should have been a large solo instance where you play as Venat, then give the free area to a second area of garlemald so the actual area of garlemald doesn’t feel like a “set piece with just a bit of everything for what the story needs”

The actual conclusion, sharlayan plot and the loporits I didn’t really have a problem with though