Quote Originally Posted by FirstGearFirstGear View Post
The "Venat allowed the Rejoinings to happen" doesn't really hold water. We know she actively worked to stop the First from being destroyed. We also know that she was creating Warriors of Light throughout the eons. If you want to criticize her for failing to stop them, that's fine, but this implication that she just sat around eating grapes until Rejoining #7 doesn't work.
But that's exactly what had to happen though. We didn't get a Chrono Trigger style time travel where the future was better because we went to the past, or a "History of Trunks" style where us traveling back to the past had no effect on our timeline at all, but a Closed Loop where we were pre-destined to go back to Elpis.

The WoL lay's to bear everything that had happened up to that point to Venat and the others in attendance, for that we technically HAD to reach that point again or you run into the butterfly effect. One less rejoining would mean one less Umbral Era/Umbral Calamity and who knows what would have been different, what empires survived and which empires would fail to form or even more specific who wouldn't have been born comes into question.

Its not that she just let them happen, its the fact that for her to reach that point they had to happen or you risk the highly likely chance that her gaining knowledge of the future wouldn't happened at all.