The above post does not hold because the Scions are not in fact well written. They may have had their moments in the past but they are an utterly bland, homogenous cast that practically all come from the same place and have the same values.

Given the choice between them and a more varied, contrasting party like that of FFIX or a game like Dragon Age Origins then I am choosing the latter.

Their arcs are over. If these writers cannot give them something to do, then get them off my screen. It's literally that simple. Get the FFXVI writing team back with all haste and liberate us from the people who'd rather spend massive amounts of the budget on scenes straight out of the Sims Unversity or the April Fool's FFXIV manga.