Dawntrail is the first expansion where I started skipping cutscenes. The story is bad

[therpgfanatic]

I never skipped a cutscene.... but by the final zone I was definitely checked out, not emotionally invested, and just wanted it to end sooner rather than later.

That said in the only defense I will give this story, your read on the final zone is wrong.

You don't genocide anyone, all of them are already dead, you are talking to computer driven AI facsimile simulation of people based on their stored data memories. They, like the zone they live in, are not real.

You shut down the nodes to make her vulnerable for a moment when she catches they are shut down, that works. You "hope" she will just stop when she realizes it is pointless and the endless have been deleted.

This is highly debatable considering that in the very last expansion we experienced a civilization that was sentient AI wiped out by the Endsinger

which is what we are dealing with here as well again. That their existence may lack souls doesn't necessarily mean they are not alive. Regardless, we absolutely destroy all the Endless which is genocide in my book.