Problematic notion about Zone 5 & 6 story bits.

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Also, the whole point of erasing Endless was to make Sphene realize she didn't have to plunder other worlds. Didn't really work, right? What was it all for?

It also had the effect of messing with Living Memory's process queue, creating the gap that we later use to get into the Terminal to deal with her ourselves. That part did work.

What also happened was the element Wuk Lamat added to the whole process: actually talking to and learning about the Endless, to ensure that they didn't go silently. Remember, Living Memory created the deep irony where nobody could remember them, despite Alexandria having the belief that people live as long as they're remembered; without Wuk Lamat's willingness to talk to everyone, they would just be... gone. By Alexandria's own beliefs, Living Memory's denizens would be deader than dead.

Speaking of, I wonder if you actually did learn about those people.

Are we to ignore every NPC who have no problem being in living memory and enjoy their new life? Alexandrian who say those taken to the cloud are there to live forever?
Which again, isn't "living" by Eorzean standards. But Alexandrian think it is.

Because if you listened to all of those NPCs as you claim to, you'd know that they all generally accept what has to happen, or in the case of sidequests, already has. They know they were running on overtime, and when that final bell rang, most of them just wanted someone to say goodbye to.

You're actually falling, perhaps even worse, into exactly the thing you're accusing DreadCrow of. You claim she's ignoring 'every NPC who has no problem with being in Living Memory', but I think you're ignoring or dismissing every NPC who agrees that it has to go. And that's a bigger list, of more prominent characters; why does Euclase outclass Cahciua, Otis, Krile's parents, and every NPC given their own sidequest to you?