[Spoilers] I'm getting sick of shonen manga power-ups each arc

[Alleo]

Adventurers not being in the cutscenes before or after doesn't really mean anything, your "adventurer friends" are actually a randomly assembled group created by the duty finder, it's probably just way too much effort to keep track of the most recent group you had so they can be inserted into your cutscenes.

Of course dont worry. Heck even SE seemingly cant decide what its true anyway, I just wanted to point out that its not 100% confirmed that we are doing stuff with groups and we have done at least some of those solo including Titania and Innocence so we are not weak. Having Ranjit coming out of nowhere in a country that is at peace with the sin eaters for some time and still beating us like that again and again just is bad imo. He was even more annoying than Zenos for me because Zenos was at least done not that often while Ranjit followed us through each map..

I think it's inherent to the long-running nature of the plot. We already powered up, the only things that can possibly threaten us have to be equally or more powerful than us, and then we have to beat those things. New expansion, new threat, and the cycle repeats.

If anything can be a "reset button" on our ever-increasing power level, I think it would have to be whatever lies at the end of the Hydaelyn vs Zodiark story. Something that brings us down to normal and not cosmically powerful.

Then perhaps any future expansions beyond it can start over with a less reality-threatening conflict.

Realistically we should need to become even more powerful with time instead of less and I cant just see what would happen that would decrease our level dramatically enough. (And this would also mean a huge skill revamp since we cant be weak but still have all of our skills to use) We get more and more near being complete, the echo is not a tool to power us up and not having the blessing in HW for some time really did not hinder us that much either. We are really just a very strong person that can beat guildmasters and old masters easily in job quests even though we just started to learn the job. When shadowbringer started to introduce the concept of split souls and getting those back with calamities I first thought that maybe only the WoL got theirs back thus the gap in power. But as we know everyone on the source has only one soul part less now than us so they should be that great too..(at the other hand other NPCs can also really take quite a bit of beating and the scions have also job changed throughout the story)