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

[jameseoakes]

Ok.
I want you to go away and read the Tipitaka or the Zen Sutra's, and then come back and explain to me why Buddhism is evil.
Then go away and ready Thomas Moore's Utopia, and tell me why his critique is wrong and why absolute perfection is both attainable and the only thing that matters.

If you can't do that, you're not disagreeing, you're missing the point.
I look forward to you calling an entire religion evil.

I love the gatekeeping, this games amazing if you've read these very specific books and agree with there premise and if you don't read them you need to shut up. Honestly if I have to read classic works of literate or theology to understand a story then it's a a badly told story especially one meant for mass consumption. it if it can't make it's themes work with out that level of specific media literacy then you should use themes you can make work.

Edit
No one is glorifying freezing children or fetishizing suffering, and you are missing. the. point. No actually you're wilfully misrepresenting it, if you're claiming that's what is happening here.

I don't think the ancients are in any way perfect however they don't seem to have to worry about petty wants like where there next meal comes from or shelter, where as this game has story points about how the common populous struggle to live, Ishgard had whole narrative points about how children were freezing to death. That is the realty of the suffering Venat inflicted there's no glory in it it's just misery and a painful short life