Quote Originally Posted by BaconBits View Post
Reject sympathetic villains, return to villains that actively make you want to wrap your hands around their throats.
That probably won't be a bad idea. 3.0 and 4.0 both had extremely unsympathetic main villains, with some secondary villains with deeper nuance. Naturally, for 5.0 they took a chance with Emet-Selch and it paid off, but then they tried the same thing in 6.0 to questionable results.

The only question is if SE accepts that and stops trying to recapture the Emet-Selch lightning.