JP Official Forums are also criticizing the Dawntrail MSQ.

[ThorneDynasty]

This talk reminds me of one of the biggest character developments in the game: The entirety of Ishgard. We went from collectively going "fuck these elf bastards", to seeing "FOR ISHGAAARD!" being earnestly shouted in game chat.

They threw in almost every trope of a backwards ass nation and then somehow turned everyone's opinion around in one expansion. And not by magically making them all "peace and love" and one dimensional (we still dealt with their nonsense all the way up to the restoration content), but just by giving us a broader picture of their society, and having characters whose development and faults mirrored their society.