If you could kill off one of the scions...

[Kallera]

Its nothing to do with our importance in the story.

Some just find the scions either boring or ineffectual, or both.

Granted, the story wants us to know that this is a team that we work with, but they aren't ACTUALLY the team that we work with(other players) our main source of interaction seems to be busywork and, despite their efforts, saving the day when they invariably arrive too late to stop the summoning of the latest primal. Yet they are the ones with plot armor and aetherial technobabble(i:e: Cid's group), so its just assumed that we are, and forever will be, stuck with them, killing primals every three months.

That's the reason I don't like them at least. (Fun fact: I initially tried to refuse joining the path of the Twelve. Got "but thou must"'d by Minfillia. Didn't appriciate it. )

I find that several characters are viewed better when they are finally getting a taste of the front lines with us, but even that doesn't save everyone's character.