One weird take I've seen after downfall is that the solution to the whole gods issue could be tying the divine gate to the cage around Predathos. That if the gods break through to Exandria, they are dooming themselves.
Now, this seems okay on a surface level. But its actually just as insane as going "we should just release predathos and kill all the gods". Because, like, this is just mutually assured destruction, ya'll. And that doesn't work???? There's a reason why nuclear disarmarment is an important thing in real life.
If the gods come to Exandria and wreck the place, then at least there's a chance of coming back from it. We've seen this with calamity! Exandria lived through it! If Predathos is released, Exandria isn't gonna live through it! It's done. It's over. We're screwed.
Like, lets say the divine gate is tied to predathos' cage. What if the Betrayers managed some way to break it down and were just like "actually we do want to die." What would happen then??? Predathos just gets to eat up everybody???
Mutually assured destruction doesn't work!!! More nukes doesn't stop people from nuking each other! It just makes the end of the world more likely! Please think people.