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

[VelKallor]

If you can't acknowledge that the complete eradication and deliberate destruction of an entire race counts as an act of genocide then there's not really much room to see eye to eye, is there?

Only they were not eradicated, they were Sundered. Not the same thing, also ignoring the fact they were doomed anyway.

and no amount of screeching or preaching from the protagonists

OH dear..anyone who DARES disagree with you is "screeching". Goes to my point that this forum is an echo chamber. Cant have anyone argue with the hivemind now, can we?

She made the only choice open to her, given all she knew and all she couldnt tell the others. Was it a good choice? Who can say. Was it necessary? Yes.

Hard times require hard choices, Theodric. Something I understand all too well. In your place, what would you have done? How would you have acted to stave off what she KNEW was coming, and whaty shue knew the Ancients could not stop? Meteion was a trainwreck started by Hermes, in his arrogance. The "perfect world" they wanted could not be retained, could not be recovered..any and all efforts they made to stave it off would have resulted in more sacrifices.

was going to sacrifice the NEW life brought about after restoring the planet in order to attempt to restore those Ancients lost in the first two sacrifices and, after doing battle and attempting and failing to subjugate Zodiark, knowing His tempering would mandate repeated sacrifices in order to sustain Him,

Note the above. Kill half the population...then kill another half..and another..and another...thats not genocide.....thats self immolation.

It's a statement of fact, not opinion.

..and it had never occurred to you that, good god say it isnt so..YOU could be wrong? Or had that never crossed your mind? Its your opinion, not fact, as others like myself disagree, unless of course you are the one trying to shut everyone else up?