I'm Frustrated with FFXIV's New Direction

[Alice_Rivers]

You wanna talk SB? Lets talk SB. SB was drawn out and badly paced, Zenos was unduly annoying with his forced victories even when you are objectively winning the fight, "Oh we've finally got all set for this event we've been building toward for the entire arc, go do some menial thing that any other person should have already done at this point in our schedule", Was Lyse the most compelling or interesting character? No. Did she completely steal the show and make the WoL irrelevant? No. I do remember however her admitting that she was not fit to be a leader and had that responsibility thrust upon her against her will and spending much of the expansion learning how to do it.

Wuk Lamat does not have Lyse's redeeming features. She does render the main character completely irrelevant and spends no time realising or fixing her unfitness to rule, instead she doubles down on the very qualities that make her unfit to rule, Lyse is disappointing, Wuk Lamat is insufferable. These are two very different things. DT doesn't make SB good, but it very much makes SB look good.

I don't mind being Alphinaud to Lyse, I do mind being random sidequest NPC to Wuk Lamat.