Are <5.0 main villain> fanboys also supportive of <6.1-6.5 main villain>? *SPOILERS*

[Absimiliard]

(Also, his story even now is better than IV Golbez's, which is a game with far less excuses.)

Have you played the DS port of FFIV or any variation of The After Years, out of curiosity? The former makes apparent several key aspects of Golbez's story that, while supposedly intended, were conspicuously absent from the original and all of its non-DS ports. The latter fills in even more blanks while also addressing the matter of seeing the rest of his redemption arc through.

I'm not going to say XIV's Golbez isn't more fleshed out by the time they're done with him, but I do think people are selling the original quite a bit short.