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

[Absimiliard]

I don't understand your question. Whether or not the trip occurred, the past could still be viewed in terms of Hermes plotting and Meteion flying off multiple times. If anything you can't really rely on the post Elpis visit instance at all because as we know, that instance cannot directly change history. The fact is the goal posts just continue moving because first it was "Venat should have told someone" then it was "Ancients casually view the past"..now here we are.

So no

You're the one moving the goalposts here.

My question was simple:
Do you believe aether ignores the flow of time? As in, do you believe the Echo could be used to see in a character's soul/aether events that version of them hadn't yet experienced? Because this is effectively what you were claiming in the post I asked my question in reply to, and it does not make sense.