Inconsistencies with the sundering (Spoilers)

[PeaTearGriffin]

The walk scene is metaphorical and symbolic.

If this is square enix's rationale I don't think it's a very good one. Cutscenes can still be metaphorical and symbolic without changing how events play out.

Apparently it didn't have an effect on Meteion's attack, considering nothing happened for thousands of years.

And that's the strange part. I think many people would figure that 1/14th the aether would be less effective at repelling meteion because this game does establish that having more or less aether makes a difference in this universe, but the final days/sundering event kind of ignores that rule and shows that an individual shard is just as good at repelling an attack from meteion as unsundered etheirys.

Maybe meteion just stopped trying after the ancients defended against her the first time around, but that wouldn't make sense either because as soon as the protagonist kills zodiark in the endwalker msq, a second final days begins to happen immediately which suggests that meteion was always constantly there.

The story's not over yet, so we'll probably get an answer to that last question by 6.5.

I certainly hope so because thats a loose end that needs tying up.