[Spoilers] Why Zenos is the most important character moving forward

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(Who gave anyone authority to determine what objectively constitutes quality writing?)

Anyone willing to discuss the quality of a work has the authority using facts. There's no one here that can take that authority away.

Just because he has no stake in the myth arc doesn't mean Zenos is poorly written either (Yotsuyu has no stake in the myth arc, but I hold her to be one of the best written antagonists in the game thus far for her thought-provoking actions in 4.3).

No one granted you authority to say that Yotsuyu was "best written" because nobody needed to grant you authority. We're all allowed to discuss quality, it's not all about your personal tastes.

To be fair, I don't think that's valid about Nanamo since we didn't really even know about the LIGHT and DARK being the main conflict till much later - I mean as the REAL story. It could have been about Uldah and it succumbing to Garlean influence for all we knew back then. Our main focus was the dragonsong war. All the hydaelyn stuff was dripped in the background, and the Ascians were still Kingdom Hearts rejects that spoke mysteriously.

Amusingly, I did refer to the Ascians as Kingdom Hearts rejects too back in AAR, but Lahabrea does give away his evil plans long before Nanamo drinks away at the end of the AAR filler.