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

[Xeronia]

Uh this may be the case for fiction but I am not aware of any cases IRL as such. Although intent is considered that doesn't mean there have been cases where good intent has been found, it just means it's complicates proving it as intent can theoretically be hard to prove IRL.

And again what led us to this discussion is the nature of time in XIV and, although many of you are in denial the director's answer and game make it clear that the characters are locked into a timeline of their own making. Even if you're arguing over technical criteria of X and y being genocide, it's ultimately meaningless in the absence of choice..and again I think that is part of why a lot of what is discussed in game is conveyed in the tone that it is. Honestly the blame for most things is Hermes and then the player.

This is why the worst thing about EW is the time travel and imo, not the base story. Without the time travel the base story would not be as vilified as it is, we would just be taling about Primals fighting and deciding the fate of man. With the writers not being clear about the time travel it leaves the door open for you to interpret many things however you want.

My apologies for interrupting but if the timeline is as you say it should be present in the game itself and not hidden away in some interview, I would also like a citation of this interview(apologies if you already posted it and I missed it) as the game and short stories on the site itself do not back your view of how the timeline is.