What lore do you ignore?

[Cleretic]

It's not the characters fault if the writer(s) didn't stick the landing on how readers should interpret their actions. The same way that people shouldn't get mad at an actor when they're dealing with a bland, lackluster or subpar script. Or a voice actor gives a deadpan performance if they're not given any indication of how their character is supposed to be feeling.

I'd also argue that it's not a fault of the writers that they didn't create a world with an unambiguous happy ending for everyone. Which really does seem to be an argument being made: that the Ancients deserved a happy ending, and so them not getting it is from varying angles both the other characters' fault for not giving it to them, and the writers' fault for not doing it.

Whereas the truth is that there's a hell of a lot of stories that just don't and shouldn't end with 'the villain is dead and the good guys all live happily ever after'. Amaurot's story is one of a tragic death of a society that doesn't deserve it, and Endwalker's story is one of grappling with death and grief in all its facets. Sure, maybe not all of those elements of either story stuck the landing, but the fix isn't to take away the fact that Amaurot died in the first place.

Is Heavensward bad for not letting us revive Harchefaunt?