Doesn't mean they were not against us,
I never said they weren't ever against us, I was just talking about FF3.

The point is, WoLs and WoDs were never meant to be these drastically opposed forces, just two sides of the same coin working toward the same goal (restoring elemental balance of the world when things get skewed too far in one direction). This is not some sort of secretive plot backpedaling they made up just for SB2, this is literally how it's always been in the FF series. It's not the fault of "the marketing" that you didn't get that memo.