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

[EaraGrace]

Disappointing, but not surprising. The Scions have always been varying levels of zealots towards Hydaelyn. Even after discovering they were primals, Y'shtola insisted Zodiark was the more dangerous of the two. These are the same people who glossed over the fact that Hydaelyn told Minfilia to kill herself and then abandoned her in the aetherial sea until she offered herself up as a vessel. (The actual quote from Minfilia is, "There, adrift and alone, Her voice silent once more, I prayed...")

I think they’re issue with it began and ended with Minfilias thoughts on the matter, where she showed no ill will towards Hydaelyn for it, nor blame. Not to mention the fact that Hydaelyns silence was not some manipulation, but a product of her weakened state. Minfilia knew this and that’s why she freely choose to do what she did.

I wonder how much aether it takes Hydaelyn just to communicate briefly from the Aetherial Sea? She constantly talks about being to weak, but then she claims to have kept enough on reserve just to fight test WoL (as if all their trials were not proof enough) and then there's the Mother Crystal which we find out is just an accumulation of aether that build up over thousands of years. Was she just that averse in using those sources?

Give that using the reserve killed her, and the Mothercrystal was intended to ensure we could reach Meteion, I’d say being averse a wise decision.

Its a bit crazy to me that you thing thats wrong, preventing a species from killing itself.

I like how you could easily say this in defense of the Sundering. xD