Quote Originally Posted by Welsper59 View Post
Wasn't it the typical arrogance type of reason? That the ancients deigned themselves to be basically perfect beings, as did the other civilizations. That's been implied since Shadowbringers. You might be right that it can be shoddy, but it is consistent to what was already somewhat known. It's pretty cliche admittedly.
Arguably? No. Their entire society was built around how to benefit the Star as a whole, rather than to descend into chaos. Furthermore, they debated what course of action to take and valued other perspectives as seen back in Shadowbringers.

Hermes and Venat, however, forced their bizarre and unhinged world views upon everybody else. In Venat's case, she simply wrote off the Ancients as a whole without informing them of the true threat lurking behind the scenes and as it turned out, Zodiark was the one which was holding the Final Days at bay, not Hydaelyn. So if Zodiark has been at full power...it's likely that the Final Days would never have returned.

Venat is little more than an abusive mother who insists that the harm inflicted upon her 'children' is a good thing, though as we now know she was perfectly capable of intervening directly and chose not to. Her faith in the people of the Source was not complete, either - she had an evacuation plan, though one that would have left the First and remaining worlds to be destroyed which is sinister in itself, given that they exist as a consequence of her own actions.