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

[Nayukhuut]

I will respond to the numbered posts, because well, I like structure.

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1. She never gave the Convocation the facts. She went up and expected them to side with her, but never told them why things were happening the way they were.

2. Zodiark was not a genocide. The life sacrificed to him by the time he was sundered was willing. It was a sacrifice, yes, but a willing one. The best plan they could come up with since they had none of the facts.

3. They went along with it originally because they wanted to save their planet, and Zodiark was the last ditch best plan they had since they had no idea what was causing the problems. If your house burnt down wouldn't you want to rebuild?

4. Zodiark had brought the land back. That was done. He had given them the time they needed to breathe and allow the world to start healing and growing again. If they had gotten together and defeated Meteion, he wouldn't have been needed anymore

5. Emet's idea towards us was not the same as the Ancient's towards life. He considered us such directly because of the Sundering. Also, the life they wanted to let flourish to sacrifice towards Zodiark was never stated to be sentient or non sentient. It was just called new life. This could have been a combination of animals, plants, etc for all we knew. It might have been no different than the way we harvest crops and animals for sustenance, but on a much larger scale.

And the Ancients had great respect for life. Hermes just couldn't get out of his sad bubble to see it. Elpis was a lab where new subjects were tested. We do the same now with experiments we create. It was a control to make sure that new flora and fauna they literally brought to life would not hurt the greater world. The sidequests in Elpis absolutely showed they cared though. They honoured the dead, and took steps to exhaust every avenue before they had to put something down.

6. Yeh, she talked to them... and when the greater part of the population choose to ignore her she decided for an entire people what she was going to do.

7. Not everything. A portion of new life so that the people trapped inside Zodiark could be returned to the Star and allowed to die.

8. The Nibirun people were not beyond saving, the Tribal quest proved that. Beyond that, how are the Sundered any better. They could meet any of the fates the other people from Dead Ends saw too. If they had dealt with Meteion, the Song of Despair would have been moot.

9. They could refuse all they want. The Echo exists. They could have been shown. She put a tracker on Meteion. She had evidence.

10. I get that. I still think she was wrong. Or at the very least the story should stop propping her up as the loving hero and acknowledge the sheer amount of blood on her hands. Not in a passive way where she says she did bad but we all pat her on the back and make her feel better, but in an actual way that acknowledges the horrors she committed and paints her in the same light as any other villain we faced.

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Oh, and one more thing... even if she didn't straight up destroy and reform the life, what she did still resulted in memory and identity death of an entire civilisation. Are you honestly telling me that if someone came along in the story now and said that they were going to wipe away everything we were, everything we loved, and everything we accomplished, that we wouldn't fight that tooth and nail? Because Venat did that, but we are expected to praise her for it.