Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
The biggest thing I wanted from Endwalker was to see the Sundering actually happen after we learned the reality of all that it did to the world and its inhabitants in the short term.

Having to refer to a collab with an entirely different game just to get a better picture of why Emet-Selch chose to refer to his former brethren as "malformed creatures" was awkward, and I can't help but feel like it was done partly to deflect from the reality of the situation to make Venat look better.
There should have been so much more from the Ancients in general, from the proposal of Zodiark and his summoning, to the subsequent disagreements and the Sundering. They were chronically short-changed, and you can see in that in just how many people, both those happy and those disappointed with EW, are still hungry for more content surrounding them. For all the build-up Amaurot and the events thereafter inspired, it was a very inadequate conclusion.

I'm guessing they thought that it was enough to see the Ascians persevering even in the face of the humans undeniably having come so far as to no longer be justified in what they were perpetuating, and believed it wasn't a necessity to touch upon. But there's no denying that seeing the initial consequences of Venat's decision would have painted them in a much more sympathetic light and her in a much darker one, and they were already jumping through hoops to avoid that as it was.