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

[Teraq]

2. They all recognize the danger of creation magic hence the general societal expectations on things like the masks they wear and some degree of conformity. Along with getting the concept vetted before used by others. The loporrobits are far more reckless it seems with creation magic

Never mind Emet balking at the idea of a mind-tampering machine when Kairos is first brought up (*). His subsequent mention of Pashtarot implies there are laws against this sort of things – and who knows what they had in store for Hermes at the end of the Ktisis events. Hermes himself certainly mentions he would no longer be a free man.

Combined with Themis casually discussing mind control spells in Pandaemonium, I am pretty sure Ancients have seen some shit back in their day, and their peaceful society doesn't seem like it was always such... or, at the very least, they were not naive at all to the potential of their powers and magicks.

Oh, but of course, then this means their society was not perfect enough to be longed for and brought back. But if it had been perfect, then they would have instantly transformed into these aliens from some distant planet and all killed themselves out of boredom, no doubt.

The moral of Endwalker is that the Ancients could never win, according to the writers. It's a tale of hope... but only if you're the right people!


(*) I still find it hilarious that the Kairos/Ktisis incident was seemingly never investigated by anyone. After all, it only implicated one of the most powerful and politically important people on the planet, and two other guys who weren't exactly nobodies either. No big deal!