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They're both right, in Yanzi's time the city was in ruins and if Anubis is the past Anubis then the future he saw was the one that didn't have Yanzi in it. Yanzi prevented the religious order from taking over. Anubis likely saw the isolated and unchanged Mimi who while he had the right ideas didn't have the right solutions which likely lead to the down fall of the civilization in the long term, likely bc he only had short term solutions and rather than try to help his people adapt to his changes, he had a 'my way or the highway' atittude.
Yanzi already knows what works and there for he can confidently move forward bc he understands the importance of making long term solutions and the importance of providing the people with opportunities. Like how you buy high quality boots to work in to help with quality life, or having a free library for people to learn.
Mimi has righteous ideas but he lacks diplomacy, i believe that flaw was likely the biggest contributor to the cities down fall. Bc you can tell a cultist that they're in a cult but until they deconstruct what they've been told theyll only get defensive. I think in the original world that failed Mimi failed to help his people deconstruct from the religious cults teaching and it caused a lot of negative effects.
With Yanzi being seen as sent from the gods Yanzi had more sway in popularity amongst the people making it easier to help deconstruct away from the cult.
But Anubis has only seen the civilization that fell bc Yanzi being in this timeline i feel was pebble being tossed in a still pond. A likely intention toss of skip rocks to heal what was suppose to be a destroyed civilization.
I might be reaching but it's be cool if we eventually saw the god Nefertum since the water Lily seems to be important in this story (the flower on Yanzi's neck). The water Lily symbol is usually associated with rebirth and the gods Nefertum. And Technically, with Yanzi's help this would be a rebirth of a civilization.
I've absolutely yapped long enough. This is all just theorizing and everything I said could be completely wrong. (^^;)))