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Meanwhile, consider Venat. When we get to Endwalker, the key thing we learn is that Venat did this STRICTLY because of the bootstrap paradox of the WoL going back to Elpis and telling her what happened, and she concluded that only by allowing the Ancients to be decimated by the Final Days (AND allowing the new life to flourish AND ultimately sundering the star entirely so that the new life was more capable of manipulating dynamis in order to combat Meteion) was she going to prevent Meteion from winning. She allowed all of the death and suffering that occurred as a result of that decision (on the Source through the calamities, on the shards because of the Rejoinings, throughout all time) because she knew that was the only future where Meteion could be defeated, and if she deviated from the bootstrap paradox, she MIGHT save one world, but she'd doom the original world and every possible timeway that would spiral off of it if she did so.
I've always felt like it was a weak point in her reasoning.

"I know if I follow this road, I'll destroy the entirety of my civilization, introduce war, illness, death and suffering in everybodies life, that 7 entire worlds will be wiped.

If I do that, there'll be some other form of humanity that hasn't fixed the problem and face imminent extinction. It won't be for thousands of years, while Meteion wipes the universe clean of all life and gets stronger in her corner of the universe.

I really hope I'll have a solution by then..."

And then, her solution is "I know your form of life can simply be erased from existence by Meteion through Dynamis, but please go there and find a way".

As if 12000 years of Ancients studying how to fix the issue and preventing Etheirys from being ruined in the first place wouldn't have granted some results.

It would have been better for the story if we were the only ones remembering what happened, really.