>>54914835Aqua is much more understandable if you look at the real world basis. the entire conflict is a debate about land reclamation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isahaya_BayIdeally Aqua wouldn't want to flood the land, they'd want to preserve the water that already there. Game Freak likely wrote it the way they did to make both seems seem more balanced but in practice just makes Aqua look suicidal.
Then again, reminder that Maxie's initial plan to create more land for people was to erupt a volcano what was already surrounded by land, and on that land is the near by Fallabor Town, full of homes and people that would be destroyed in said eruption.