Does FFXIV Hate Politics Now? [Spoilers for Dawntrail 7.1]

[Manamaru]

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There were several things from previous expansions and character arcs that were forgotten about in place of them cardboard cutouts. Whether that was the writing staff not including it because they forgot or it was a complete disregard out of disrespect is something we may never know; but we can always get a hunch.

But yeah, the story giving off the feeling of being totally defanged to really have any nuance. Story beats and elements sideline you into either being completely psychotically evil, or you're completely subdued and a one dimensional side-character. But this bares the question if the writing staff and etc. have become a victim to soft-modern writing, where they would be too afraid to even approach the nusances of like when Godbert and Nanamo had a little talk about how Nanamo wanted to give funding to refugees and didn't consider how the citizens of Ul'dah would feel about it. Not without oversimplifying the issue and "somehow" making it work because peace and happiness

Starting in the Shadowbringers patches, the writers embark on handwaving away all of the unpleasantness in the setting, at the expense of FF14's realism and feeling of weight

I think you, like many others, are confusing "realism" with "believability".