I hope Square doesn't keep deeming certain content unnecessary

[Raskbuck]

Plus the usual catboi villain guy doesn't exist on the First either. It was a stretch that he was there for the Stormblood one.

I feel like this is a really weak argument because, just like there's a First's equivalent of Rowena and Gerolt in the form of Mowen and Grenoldt, they could have added a reflection of him. I just get the impression it was scrapped last minute and the emote, presumably Flower Shower, was put on the Mog Station instead.

It seems like a lot of content was scrapped relatively late in the cycle, like the conclusion of Bozja building up for a possible continuation, but then doing a complete 180° and wrapping everything up through the Field Notes (plus Matsuno's confirmation on Twitter that the story is over).