What is the point of having a twist if nothing is done with it? (story spoiler)

[Verkas]

Thancred almost completely disappears around soon after you kill ifrit somewhere around lvl25ish or so, that's when he is sent to investigate Lahabrea. And that's it, there only couple of mentions about to his sudden disappearance and that's that. Mind you the quest where he is revealed is around lvl 45 ish. Getting from 25ish to 45ish takes a long time especially if you're not playing it every day. Meaning you can completely forget that Thancred even existed. Because you don't even do a quest to figure out his wheareabouts. He is literally forgotten for 20 or so levels. And then you make a sudden reveal without ANY prior explanation that such thing could be possible. Oh wait i'm sorry there's like a sentence told by Minfilia that such thing could happen. She told it either before she got captured by the empire, or after the reveal had happened i don't remember it well enough. So please by all means explain that

[Gunspec]

Getting from 25ish to 45ish takes a long time especially if you're not playing it every day. Meaning you can completely forget that Thancred even existed.

By your logic, they shouldn't have made Jason Todd come back as Red Hood, because there were 20 years between the batman comic when he was killed off and when he returned. Or perhaps they shouldn't have made rescuing Han Solo the opening act of Return of the Jedi, because there was a three year gap between Empire and Jedi, and who remembers what happened in a movie 3 years ago?

Thancred left to investigate something shady, Thancred is unaccounted for when the scions are attacked, Thancred is later seen to have been possessed by the shady stuff he went to investigate, and judging from your magitek armor mount, I assume you know that defeating Lahabrea without killing Thancred in the process is the finale to the 2.0 storyline. The character is thus introduced, the problem is set up, and the situation is resolved. Literally the definition of "doing something" with a twist.

It's not like he was a never-before-seen character who was defeated by accident during his first appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHbIs1pZ1m8

[Shneibel]

so basically, you claim to read and watch everything & then forget about it and now you are here to complain and say it is SE faust ?