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

[Absimiliard]

Don't like Hermes? You don't understand depression.

This one I can't figure out. Of all the things to use as a defense, why this? By doing so, they are essentially insinuating that depression inherently puts you on course to become a monster. Last I checked, nobody I know with depression has decided they want to go burn down a city block for no reason other than finding the people living there to be hard to deal with.

[AwesomeJr44]

This one I can't figure out. Of all the things to use as a defense, why this? By doing so, they are essentially insinuating that depression inherently puts you on course to become a monster. Last I checked, nobody I know with depression has decided they want to go burn down a city block for no reason other than finding the people living there to be hard to deal with.

This probably isn't the most charitable interpretation but I imagine it's because it's the easiest response and it comes out as a knee-jerk reaction to defend Hermes and the game in general, and that the Hermes defenders don't actually think about what they're saying beyond a surface level. It also allows them to shut down any criticism without actually arguing against the criticism itself, instead attacking the critic directly.