Quote Originally Posted by Eisi View Post
That's contradictory. The writers didn't know that they inadvertently wrote a genocidal character so they couldn't have built in options to criticize that.
I think they've had more than enough time to realise that is what they wrote, though. They've had plenty of critical feedback since EW released, including Yoshi feeling the need to comment on whether she's the "bad guy" or not, acknowledging her actions are controversial, and that's in addition to them taking some remedial steps via the Omega quest. All the same the rest of the MSQ proceeds as if none of that ever happened and as if her actions are uncontroversial, and the same goes for the codex.

Quote Originally Posted by Eisi View Post
The story isn't deep precisely because the writers don't care about it as much. You care more about the story than they do.
That may well be so, in spite of the fact that it and its most ardent defenders like to pretend it is. It certainly seems like they've given up on trying to make it make sense.