Ok a few of my thoughts.

Alisae and Gaia are over rated.

Papalymo deserved so much more and I feel Krile stole his place.

Viera and Hrothgar where a waste of resources they should have added more customisation and fixed what is needed. We get hairstyles for those races now and the other races are forgotten or so it seems. They are playing catch up.

Yugiri and Hilda are far better female characters and deserve to be in the story more along with F'lhaminn

Zero is ok but nothing special I find the hat tipping annoying and also Fordola I do not like.

I love the trust system as I am quite happy to duo or solo and I feel it is good they are expanding on it. I wish I could do all the MSQ fights with them.

I find people calling Derplander Meteor annoying lol as I know him as the Derp but that is not a game issue just me being daft.