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

[KageTokage]

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The problem I have is that the logic the game uses to act like there was only one good choice in the matter is...flimsy at best.

Discreetly warning the people about a disaster is more likely to reduce panic when it arrives, not increase it...and that's precisely what the Scions do the moment they return from the moon, and we're also certain to provide an update about the turning business as soon we gain insight in Thavnair. Natural disasters were simply accepted as a part of the world in the ancient times and the Convocation were noted as being practiced in handling such matters in one of the short stories.

As for Hermes...he was non-essential because he couldn't even pin down that dynamis was causing the Final Days and by Elidibus' own admittance their understanding of the Final Days was the same as our own.