Now we have: Problem -> Solution within a cutscene -> play happy music and everyone smiles. This is childish and insulting, and I think it all stems from Endwalkers rushed state of storytelling, where they wanted to vomit everything out at us because they couldn't be arsed to write properly and just wanted to cram in as much as they could. So we get a speed version of Thavnair, a speed version of Garlemald, the plot-expositionville of SHarlayan that conveniently knows everything in the world, so we just have to go to them for a solution after one day of research. I hate Sharlayan because it's a convenient tool for the writers now to okay their way out of any problem solving writing, much like how KOANA uses Sharlayan in the New World. "Oh lemme just quickly invent a train whistle that transfers aetheric sounds that mimic a beast, but in an inoffensive way so the Rroneek don't get TOO SCARED in a day! Because Sharlayan powers!"

Dawntrail is way too much of a course correct towards "Oh look at this perfect society where everything is solved by talking and understanding."It's talk-no-jutsu land with rubber bullets, and the occational brawl to try and gaslight you into thinking there's any actual problem happening that can't be solved over some tacos. The shonen anime-level writing is bleeding through really heavily and I cringed with Koana having the fastest ever "oh I love rroneek now" turnarounds and the "I must protect everyone!" suicide jump. In JP it's line for line the exact thing that every shonen anime character yells out too.

Highlights of this MSQ: Someone mentioning that Y'shtola is researching the rift travel (yeah we know) and that she wants to meet us for the key. For her to APPEAR in a scene later to tell us that she is researching the rift travel and that she needs our key eventually. THE SAME THING, 10/10 fan service, 10/10 writing, hand them all the writing trophies and prizes. They still have no idea why they brought the Scions to Tural aside from fan service and problem solving the plot for us.
Oh you don't like Sphene? HAVE TWO SPHENES!