Ability to see the future: Loose plot thread?

[RyuDragnier]

You know, Xenoblade Chronicles exists, you can play it. We don't need to cram it into FFXIV.

And then to color-code it to remove all tension for some reason, except when we throw away the ruleset for the sake of adding tension, for... reasons?

Well when the hell do you want them to do with it? Just drop it so people complain about it being underused?

[Cleretic]

Well when the hell do you want them to do with it? Just drop it so people complain about it being underused?

I've literally never seen a single person 'complain' about it being underused. Even the OP was basically just asking 'hey, how prevalent is this as a potential thing they could do something with'. I don't think there is this pressing need for them to use it if they don't want to, and for the most part, they don't want to use it in any major ways.

If I were forced to sit down and go 'okay write in future sight in a major way that isn't just Mikoto Again', I would actually capitalize on the difference not just between future sight and most other extrasensory things in FFXIV's setting, but also future sight as depicted in other stories: that we don't have it. There's been plenty of stories of 'we've seen assured disaster, how do we make that not happen', including in FFXIV itself, but there's markedly less stories about someone who's audience to someone else who has a vision of the future. Are they trustworthy, given we've been lied to about a vision of the future and other extrasensory abilities before? Are they reliable, since we've also had important information not divulged by previous future-sight instances? Is it even useful? What do we do with this information when we're given it? How do you know you're not just setting up to ensure this alleged future happens, rather than avoiding it? Given the various uncertainties about second-hand future sight, is it even useful information or is it just a distraction?

Why not write a story that asks and grapples with those questions, instead of just doing the same thing we've seen before but adding arbitrary extra rules?