The narrative and thematic importance of Zenos is so obvious that it feels like being hit over the head with a brick, but people SOMEHOW manage to keep downplaying his importance to not only Endwalker, but FFXIVs entire overarching narrative.
Zenos is literally a direct mirror of the player, and in the end, he had the answer that Hermes was searching for and Meteion failed to find.
He is arguably the most thematically important character in the entire games overarching plot.
Latinos will tell you the most traumatic thing to ever happen to them 2 minutes after meeting them for first time and then end the conversation with “pero gracias a dios, todo esta bien” 🙃
It’s not your expression, it’s a machine given words that it uses to create a consensus of how other people have expressed it. Expression is your voice, not the voices of others serrated and dragged through a machine made to mimic your mouth. You express nothing, you forfeit your voice to allow the rest of humanity to speak for you. Here, you even say the ultimate goal is the erasure of human voices. Your “expression” leads to a lack of humanity, not a furtherance of it. Every iteration and invention of art has found new ways to allow us to culminate the human experience through sensation, but generative AI is cancer, it’s the cells of what we’ve already built spinning ad nauseam until all we “make” is what others have already made. It’s a dead end and lifeless, and goes against whatever spirit, soul, or God gave us the gift of creation in the first place.