Remember when this game was good?

[Absurdity]

How did Ardbert and his group caused the flood of light by felling the Ascians? Is that implying the concept of "good" somehow is an element and because Ardbert and company did so much good in the world that it broke its balance?

Can we finally accept how the game's conflict of calamities (specifically Light and Dark) literally is nothing but a Care Bears episode

I never said it didn't have any plot holes, just not as many as Endwalker does.

But yes, from my cursory knowledge the implication seems to be that by foiling the Ascian's plans they shifted the aetheric balance too far towards umbral (or was it astral since that same story flipped them around?). But don't ask me how or why our actions haven't caused the source to turn into the same hellhole yet.