Building a better Alphinaud

[Avidria]

And I wonder whether that opinion would change if you were to consume other stories and media.

Not particularly.

I've played and watched playthroughs of plenty of story games, some of which I'd genuinely call masterpieces of storytelling, and I still enjoyed the majority of the Endwalker MSQ. Would I call IT a masterpiece? No. It had it's flaws, imo the worst being odd pacing, uninteresting villains early on (specifically Zenos and Fandaniel for a fair chunk of it), and frankly a too long list of characters - too long to do most of them justice. But I still enjoyed the story overall, and I still actually like almost all of the Scions.

...and the one I don't like is Krile. So.