JP Official Forums are also criticizing the Dawntrail MSQ.

[ForteNightshade]

what funny is most the complaints is people unable to deal with NOT being the protagonist for a story and people with Main Character Syndrome can't possibly have fun if its not 100% about their character even tho really after Stormblood, Shadowbringers and EW being so focused on world / universe ending threats their characters would have seen the 1st half as a nice relaxing vacation compared to what they had dealt with for so long and been relaxing.

Quoting myself from reddit:

Can we please stop saying people merely want the WoL to be in the spotlight? While that may be the case for some, plenty more simply want their character to have a sense of relevancy.

Seriously, you could replace the WoL with a random nobody and it'd have almost zero impact because everything revolves around Wuk Lamat like an insufferable black hole.

The 4th zone is a prime example of us not being a world altering bad*** but going back to our roots and getting wrapped up into small little adventures along the way. That's what I, and I suspect many others, wanted from a lower stakes story. And that whole Western motif highlights how you can dial down those stakes without needing to anchor everything to one character. I wouldn't necessary hate if we were treated as a legitimate mentor to miss Mary Sue but we're not. The story acts like she accomplishes all these amazing things yet not only never shows a single one but actively contradicts itself.

A perfect sense for our character instead goes to Thancred

I've said it elsewhere but it bears repeating. We're not the side character like Hien but the nameless guard delivering a missive. And that makes for an incredibly boring "adventure".