14 has gone to high stakes too “sterile” world for want of a better term starting with ShB.

Like ShB had a good vibe to it but it certainly lacked the human element of conflict. In legacy->Sb you were often navigating cultures that had endless problems that couldn’t be fixed by punching something harder and what was seen by the WOL as the noble solution was often something someone else reviled.

Like think of the crystarium, what is its “flaws”? It’s a giant city and it’s basically a perfect utopia just because the story calls for a “good faction”

The story needs to bring back the gritty human element, that people are flawed, they will do the wrong thing, people will take advantage of a bleak situation to make others lives worse. People talk of DT being a Disney movie but really that design started in ShB