Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
The strange attempts to justify genocide and paint the culprit as a 'herois' is also rather strange.

The decision to artificially conclude major ongoing storylines in the same expansion also left them with not enough time to build up naturally and breathe. Even in the most recent patch things are arguably moving too quickly.
I disagree with the OP's opinion, as I liked Endwalker's story. However, I admit I am confused by people who throw out the genocide argument. It was made pretty clear with the summoning of Zodiark that eventually all life would be sacrificed to fuel Zodiark to create a facsimile of the world they once had. So, the choice was to sacrifice everyone to Zodiark or sunder the world and give mankind a chance of survival. Or are people thinking there's a third option to stop the Endsinger and preserve life? The ancients admitted they would not have known how to deal with Meteion had Venat told them.

A spoiled brat with, daddy issues, destroyed an entire civilization because life is so "mean". What an awful ending. Also, you don't just introduce new characters that late in the saga. Just terrible storytelling.
That's a surface-level understanding of Meteion. The villain was always Hermes and his disagreement with how the ancients dealt with creations leading to his nihilism. Meteion and the Endsinger were just the tools of that. The point was to show how the ancients' callous disregard for life led to their undoing.