It's a common misconception that the scene with Venat is an actual retelling of what went down but the timing doesn't fit and it's a deceptive, overly stylistic depiction of the events leading up to the Sundering. The game frequently seeks to deflect from the consequences of the Sundering by avoiding referring to it as it what it is at its core - an act of deliberate genocide and racial replacement with a dash of Dynamis focused eugenics thrown in for good measure.

The Sundered exist at the expense of the Ancients and are in no way the natural successors of Etheirys. The game simply lacks the stones to explicitly highlight that and hides it behind vague insinuations of 'love' and 'awe' aimed at the player character. Not only in regards to Venat but now with the Twelve as well. At least in Venat's case she actually interacted with the player character...if only briefly. I'm still struggling to figure out why the Twelve are so enthralled with the Sundered or downplaying the many atrocities committed in religious crusades or just life in general. It's hilarious that Yoshi-P referred to Hythlodaeus of all characters as 'scary' in a game where sexual assault, racism, war, betrayal, starvation, piracy and numerous other horrid things are common place.

This has all been discussed at length throughout this very thread, of course - and as mentioned the sources highlighting all of this are present in the video I linked a page or two back. I bring that up to spare everyone - and myself - the painstaking process of hunting down and posting the exact same sources for the hundredth time.

I'd also like to point out that both Ishikawa and Yoshi-P have both been rather weasel-worded when it comes to the situation with the Nibirun and that they were their vision for how the Ancients would 'probably' go if they didn't change at the point of time in the Final Days - it's neither stated as an absolute, and they had little reason to change because Venat failed to reveal the true picture, so blaming them for it is rather dubious as far as I'm concerned.

The story has consistently been fine with the Sundered being allowed to survive in spite of their many faults, and they're depicted as having a right to fight for that, so it's hypocritical in the extreme to say that it doesn't extend to the Ancients. A lot of Endwalker's writing directly undermines Shadowbringer's own messaging and even the patch content during this expansion cycle has failed to be consistent in terms of either messaging or morality.