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

[Lauront]

I'm willing to make an allowance for the fact that when dealing with state actors in such a setting that they can probably get their hands fairly bloody without their morals being brought into question. Again, it would be nice if you could express some of your views via your character to perhaps dispute it, but I think with Venat it's the sheer scale and extent of it that made it much harder for me to ignore.

By the by it's also why I find it funny when Yoshi tries to brush off Venat's or Hermes's mentality to "it's just an ancient thing, bruh...they're just so scary"... when multiple sundered characters pass rather similar judgements on the rest of mankind or make such decisions on similar bases.

The story barely worked out only because Zenos didn't care/became obsessed with us and Elidibus was arguably incompetent.

In what sense? Elidibus's goal is to usher in a calamity, which barring the time travel, he managed to do. I think the issues with Elidibus are more in a retrospective sense - i.e. given that we learnt he was a primal, why didn't he do x,y or z. However, at least until 4.5, he seemed to be moving rather cleverly; its Varis's agenda which was curtailed as a result. Technically speaking, if we remove the Exarch (re the kidnapping of the WoL) and Emet-Selch (5.3) from the equation, Elidibus would've succeeded in ending the WoL twice through his own methods. Or do you mean with the equilibrium shifting too far to light i.e. he let the WoL become a problem for them?