Can we take a few moments to discuss how much Square seems to be holding its punches with the main characters? Since early Stormblood they have had a habit of putting the main cast into mortally wounded and/or Noble Sacrifice situations that consistently have zero consequence shortly after. This works well as a storytelling trope, but they just keep doing it and it has reached the point where any time a main character is put into danger I, as the viewer, do not feel a thing as I know they will stand right back up in 5 minutes.

Here are some major examples that I can recall:

Y'shtola nearly cut in half by Zenos
Gosetsu has a building collapse on him
Y'shtola falls into seemingly bottomless pit
Thancred fending off Ran'jit
Ryne taking a seemingly mortal blow from Emet; they even have a slow motion effect on this one for emphasis

On a side note, remember how Y'shtola's use of aethersight was slowly killing her in HW and hasn't been brought up since?

I love these characters as I am sure most of you do, but I am tired of these moments having so little meaning. The Thancred one in particular for this expansion really ruined his entire hero moment for me.