This is awesome... Why couldn't we have this?

[dinnertime]

I dunno. Whenever 1.0 primals are brought here and there, they seem to have a lot of depth and to think by themselves, rather than by the collective consciousness from their summoners as they are in 2.0. Maybe I'm just biased because I never played 1.0 though.

Honestly, I think they still do have their own consciousness in 2.0, but they never got that much depth, really.
I mean, that 1.0 Titan cutscene is pretty neat but it's still the Titan we know and love in 2.0 which still cares about his children.
In 1.0, Garuda is a Primal hungry for power and destruction and Ifrit tempers innocents as his slaves, and they still the same in 2.0.