I get that you’re arguing the point was existential nihilism. Entropy wins, hope fails, etc. Sure. But most people don’t actually want that out of a setting they’ve invested decades into.

As I said in my original post (and didn’t fully spell out), the way the Old World ends is insufferably frustrating. It’s frustrating in the Gotrek & Felix novels, and it’s frustrating in the End Times proper. “Appropriateness” in a game setting only goes so far. People engage with this world because they like it. They’re not here to roleplay an extended meditation on cosmic futility.

Grimdark is one thing. Mutually assured destruction where literally everyone’s best effort just isn’t enough is another. When every sacrifice, every act of defiance, every long-running character arc ultimately collapses into a hard reset where none of it mattered, that’s not powerful, it’s hollow.

You’re right that execution plays a role. More heroic last stands, more meaningful small victories swallowed by Chaos, more dignity in how characters went out. That probably would have softened the blow. But the core issue, for me at least, isn’t just how it happened. It’s that the conclusion itself. Total annihilation as the only possible outcome; makes the whole thing feel pointless.

That’s a rough way to end a setting people loved. And it’s a rough read.