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

[Turtledeluxe]

How is people wanting to call her out bizarre? It doesn't matter if her actions brought the world we live in. It doesn't even matter if we LIKE the world we live in. What matters is that her actions ended up killing entire worlds full of people that did not want to die. We can appreciate what we have now, but still say that Venat was wrong to toy with the lives of so many. An awful act is still an awful act, even if a supposed hero does it.

It wasn't world's full of people and many of them did want to die, by literally serving a summon who recurring called for sacrifices and tempered the rest. I wouldn't call being permanently tempered living. It's bizarre because you're either being obtuse or just don't realize that Zodiark was only a good solution for people who were content permanently serving and sacrificing for him in order to act as a shield against the Final Days.

And I keep having to remind everyone-- Hydaelyn was a group effort. So it's not the awful act of Venat, it's the awful act of a collective. And it isnt awful because as I keep saying, the force required to injure Zodiark had the byproduct of sundering. Its not "Venat plotted to send humans back to the dark ages". If anything your hyper focus on Venat seems very odd. I don't notice anyone calling out or making threads about the myriad other genocidal people in the story who are also framed as heros at particular points or even have redemption arcs. I think the real issue you have is deeper than that.

Venat doesn't even really get a redemption arc. It's a confession and then we kill her.