Quote Originally Posted by Sarixis View Post
I don't think the videos were fundamentally bad, and still stand by some of the ideas. I just have more mixed feelings about them now after getting novella-length comments that can be summarized as "Umm actually, here's why your ideas are wrong!" and it just murdered any interest to continue with that type of content. Having said videos still be the most successful on my channel despite completely changing gears to be more of an FF historian is also a bit irksome thanks to the algorithm's shackles.

Hearing that people like you are inspired by the videos does keep me from hating them though. And people have my blessing to continue referencing said videos for attempts at good faith and constructive discussion when they clearly just want to see something they care about in the game be better.
As one of those who left novella-sized comments, especially on the AST video, I'd like to point out that even if the quality and presentation of ideas had been poor (they were not), those videos would still remain a tremendous help to the larger course of discussion here and on other platforms, and perhaps the only reason about a third of the participants in more thorough/comprehensive/cohesive rework discussion ever took any interest in such things (at least, enough to go out and put ideas on the table, critique, and carry forward).