Endwalker Story sucked and it's time to admit it

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but they wrote her as a genocidal maniac who glorifies suffering for the sake of it. I believe you when you say that the writers aren't on the same page as their writing, they wrote this evil character and portrayed her a tragic hero and expected people to buy it. Thus she is indeed a villain in all but name, and a lot of people bought the lie, hook line and sinker.

Perhaps they buy the "lie, hook line and sinker" because they don't experience the story with the same pre-existing expectations that you do. I believe that you developed this theory back in Shadowbringers, and looked for things to vindicate it throughout Endwalker.

If you consider Venat to be genocidal, then you must concede that Emet-Selch is also genocidal, despite motivations. If the former "glorifies suffering", the latter cares nothing when causing suffering through calamity after calamity. This speaks of a great disregard and disdain for any creature who does not possess an Ancient's soul. A far cry from the idyllic dreaming of players about the True Goodness of the Ancients. What a god creates, a god can destroy, and, as we learn in both Amaurot and Elpis, they show a distinct lack of empathy for created beings. Even beings that have a soul.

The actions of Emet-Selch are also tainted by their knowledge that not a single Ancient soul that is brought back will ever be whole, given the mess they made of the Void.

So, continue to despise Venat, but you must also provide the same level of that feeling for Emet-Selch as well.