What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[linayar]

It's not about being in a position to care. Its about the writing. Both him and Elidibus were essentially shafted, hardly even a word of thanks given to both of them despite them being the only reason we even lived and won against Meteion. Meanwhile Venat is treated as benevolent and as a hero despite the atrocities she committed. Shes even given a minion in her honor lol. Where our Emet minion? Or elidibus minion. We're supposed to be remembering them and everything yet we dont even get that. Theres a very clear bias present which contradicts their claims of both sides are neither good nor bad.

Considering we're the only one interacting directly with them, I can see why they might not be on anyone else's mind in terms of a "word of thanks" and, Elidibus aside, we simply do not interact with Zodiark at the level that we would have a word of thanks for him.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Considering we're the only one interacting directly with them, I can see why they might not be on anyone else's mind in terms of a "word of thanks" and, Elidibus aside, we simply do not interact with Zodiark at the level that we would have a word of thanks for him.

It’s as simple as having a minion made in memory of him.For either of them really. We don’t even have a dialogue option to thank Elidibus for what he did or to even bring it up to Emet despite Emet basically having a hand in his demise.

Without any official reason, my guess is that Zodiark was summoned while under the influence of Meteion, thus their fear twisted its form.

There were statues of Zodiark before the final days even hit, in Akadaemia.