I think these excellent panels from Attack on Titan showcase the Venat situation rather well:





It also isn't 'shock value' to draw attention to the consequences of a particular character's actions. That certain posters cannot refute the evidence and sources provided to them without resorting to bizarre insinuations of everyone not mindlessly lapping up the story as 'haters' says it all, really. I must admit, I don't really pay much heed to such phrases myself.

As it happens, a lot of people in this thread are pretty intimately familiar with the game's established lore but their utmost priority isn't bending over backwards to run damage control for Venat.

A lot of us here are actually pretty fine with antagonists and protagonists alike doing terrible things. Though when there's little to no acknowledgement of the cost of the actions in question then it simply comes across as performative and lacking in tact. I don't think it is unfair to suggest that if a writer seeks to embrace heavy themes then care should be taken when engaging them.

Certainly, during the previous Fan Fest the new lead localiser acknowledged a need to 'do better' in regards to how certain elements of the game could stand to be handled with more dignity. Who knows? Perhaps she was referring to Venat's horrific actions, at least in part.