Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Dogempire]

The thing that seal Zenos for me is the speech he made in his last entry. All Scion were screaming "NOOOO YOU CAN"T FIGHT HER ALONE" as they were whipped away, then Zeno showed up and ask "why you prey still live, surely it's not match for you", then he proceed to propose to "do away with the distraction". So he wasn't helping us saving the world, he's just making sure his last fight with us will have no interloper. Like you said his track record is consistent, he took down the blackrose project isn't out of altruism, but just because it will make the WoL weaker. Fighting us at our best is Zeno's god given right, and no one can say otherwise even a god. (Endwalker).

Thanks for reminding me, because now I notice another oxymoron about Wuk. It's very obvious Wuk's entrance to the last fight is a copy of Zeno's, but the effect cann't be more diferent:

- Zenos: came in and side line the final boss of a 10 years long story as mere distraction in order to set the stage wholly about us (the WoL and himself).

- Wuk Lamat: came in and side line us (WoL) to make the stage all about herself.

It's hilarious, sadly just in a bad way.

Zenos didn't even sideline the boss, Zenos' entrance to the story felt more to me like "Hey, wanna fly on the back of a dragon god, hurtling through space as a depressed bird chucks planets at you?"

Like hell yeah, Zenos only made the last boss more epic, AND THEN when we had our victory the game was like "I know you just finished an epic battle and destroyed an existence-ending horror, but how about we have a battle even more epic than the one you just fought?"

Zenos was one of my favorite parts of Endwalker, he didn't show up often but when he did it would be very entertaining and a good time (In the Cold, freeing Zodiark, that time when Alisae said some things to him and he responded)

His last solo duty was lowkey like ending 8+ years worth of story with a bang in a final act of self-indulgence against a person who's more or less, just like you (Unless you just hate combat content anyways)