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

[Lucida3b]

I think acknowledgement of hypocrisy or at least nuance is one of the best things you can do for conflicts of morals, I mean i would argue HW did a lot of that, as well as some ways Stormblood but in a different manner with how life under a dictatorship can make people act.

Hermes being a friend is a generous interpretation, especially as we knew he became Fandaniel and there were early signs he was off kilter.

As for the story itself, I guess I'll re-post one of Lurina's older quotes: "The more controversial a plot element, the tighter the plot has to be to get people to accept it in good faith, and 'cultural genocide was the right call to save the world' is about as close to maximum controversy as you can get."

Fantastic way of phrasing that, It's similar to thoughts I've had one varying pretentious or very dark ideas/touchy subject matters. You better not be a hypocrite on it, otherwise I may just think it's less honest bringing up the topic and more the author whining about something. Like the many MANY writers who go 'immortality bad' at some point, where it just feels like 90% of the time it's because they're having a mid life crisis or something.