Quote Originally Posted by Rowde View Post
One of the major issues is that the story we as the players were presented with actively contradicts itself. Through Cahcuia it tells us one thing, then shows us another through the MSQ and Side Quests across the zone. If the "people" in the zone are merely facsimiles, AI constructs, then why are we encouraged to engage with or "help" them at all? They shouldn't matter at that point. A lot of the naysayers like to present the scenario of turning off an electronic device, well... let me ask you this: Before you turn off your electronic devices do you first make sure they were happy with the tasks they completed today? Do you try to make sure your electronic devices are comfortable before you shut them down for the evening? Do you lay them down gently on a pillow?
Kindness, I guess. Regardless of them still being simple constructs, they were still constructs of someone's else soul. And not being allowed to rest until their unresolved business is settled.
It is not really different than a wandering spirit if we are to use many different media portraying ghosts around the world.
Adding to that, Deadwalk is a perfect example of what could happen if unresolved business and lack of Aether is also left unattended. Everything we fight there were Endless and turned into monsters because they were Ghosts.

Also, regarding possible solutions tied to sidequests? You are not wrong. MSQ always avoids trying to bring sidequests into it, which is a massive shame.
Want a good example of why this was obnoxious, in the Endwalker patches? The being of primordial Light, Eden, could be transported with the assistance of Ryne and Gaia to the 13th when we were to face Zeromus.
Use the being of Primordial Light against the Primordial Darkness and by that clash allow the 13th to start to restore itself.
And that without mentioning the two former Warriors of Light from the 13th that now reside in the First, one being part of the Trial Quests of Heavensward and has a complicated name to type, and the other being the Waitress Elezen.
None of them were mentioned or even brought over a topic that genuinely would've mattered to them because all of it is side-content and they cannot force players to do side-content unless they make it obligatory.