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

[jameseoakes]

Poor story telling, that scene isn't literal. She didn't sunder the world on a whim after a conversation with half a dozen snivelling scared old men. We know she had at least 12 other companions, and it certainly took more than raising her sword in the air to sunder an entire world into 14 reflections.
The whole scene is metaphorical, due to time constraints because they crammed two expansions worth of story into one.

Honestly I think that's pretty damning, they couldn't be bothered to portry one of the most import events on Etheryis but instead gave us a scene where Venat literally pronounces her whole race unfit for existence with a big showy speech while it's been generally othering the victims

Edit

I did joke a bit with friends about how, while there was some good stuff in the Omicron quests, there was also that uneasy feeling when built off of 6.0: "There's no correct or incorrect way to exist! Everyone can be saved! Everyone can rediscover hope and the will to survive! ...except Those Ancient Guys, there was no saving them, sorry, they just point blank had to die no matter what. answers.ogg"

It's so odd, the story is all about hope other than that one group who don't deserve hope for some reason and can't be saved for some reason. (Even the murderer robots that glass planets deserve hope)