Quote Originally Posted by Brightamethyst View Post
Agreed. Minfilia comes across as annoying and useless because the game never lets us see her shine. We're told that she's a great administrator, diplomat, etc but we never see any of the day to day stuff she's really good at. We only get called into the office when there are battles to be fought.

Lyse is similar. NPCs are always talking about her leadership but we rarely see it in action. We see her fairly infrequently, and when we do we see her struggle and lose more often than we see her succeed. That makes her seem weak and ineffective to the player.
I think part of the issue is that a lot of the diplomacy, paperwork kind of things aren't exactly appealing for a lot of people to see. While I would have enjoyed it most players want action. And even then I don't think people would have changed their mind on how useless she was, because they only value action.