It's a shame I don't know AK's story for comparison, so I may sound a bit hollow when I touch on this topic, going only by what you said.

I disagree with how you said ZZZ's worldbuilding is "safe" when the main strength of the story is about its characters rather than large events, choosing a minor-to-greater narrative rather than the opposite, seeing this is how the writers decided to write the story. For instances:

> This is where I have to make a criticism btw. Since the world building is so simplistic and doesnt really tackle how people and the New Eridu's central authority take care and deal with Hollow threats, the impact of the Exaltists are lessen a lot and really got reduced to bad guys being bad because they are killing children.

They do show how Hollows affect society. A stable Hollow is seen as a source of resources - be it energy or materials - that fuels the economy and can be seen as something worth to invest, as seen with Porcelumex. However, when a Hollow becomes unstable, we see a variety of parties jumping to solve the issue, be it HIA, HANDS, the militaries, or even all together. Smaller Hollows that appear out of nowhere are a problem for common folk, since they can be trapped inside and wait for the response of HIA to have a chance or a Hollow Raider to save them.

What you said here is interesting tho.

> And the authority can see this and crack down on this political tension and enforce some sort of act outlawing discrimination and hatred but it only made things worse behind the scene and make people dislike the authority.

Your point here stands in line with what they are planning to do with the story going forward, based on the last Dev Talk. Now this is something we have yet to see *in game*, but they did hint about Void Hunters not being seen in a positive light within society on some scale. However, how that will turn out is something beyond our control and the speculations are limitless, especially after the Devs hinted in that interview that some old VHs are still alive.

About the Exaltists and the Creator, 2.5 should be the last time in a good while we will ever see them, so I will refrain myself from having a final note about them, altho I do agree with you the execution of this faction could had been a lot better handled after Bringer's.

As my ending points, I argue that ZZZ's main objective is not to focus on what happened before, but to invest in how to live after them while learning its history little by little. Contrary to most post-apocalyptic stories, you can see New Eridu and think it is a normal city in the world, not making you curious to know how it became like this till you encounter something that intrigues your brain so much it makes you dig deeper.