A lot of these characters are done developing and could've been left behind at best, or killed at worst. If Graha had died in 5.3, he could have gone out as a hero with a tragic end. Since he lived, he's basically done a cool gravity save in endwalker, and in the new trailer he's eaten a taco for the fangirls. It's like this for most of these characters. They're done, but they stick around because fans would be sad if they died. But they persist in these zombie forms that just spout memes for us to record in webm/gif format and don't do a whole lot of substantial development. Meanwhile, characters with room to develop have to compete for screentime with characters who could've been written out for a season without affecting the story at all.

Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly mind if these characters live. But if they're going to stick around, I wish the writers would do something interesting with them on a personal level. Having Thancred stick around just to be like "This is Thancred!" for the fans is so shallow and cheesy compared to the Thancred in ShB who was struggling hard with his guilt surrounding Minfilia and dumping a ton of his personal issues onto Ryne. Like, remember when these people had demons to work through? lol. Now they just eat tacos and drink punch, it's so stupid. Why are they here? What do they even want on a deep personal level? What are they doing to accomplish that? Do we even care anymore? It doesn't seem like it. Everyone's just here for the meme screenshot. Haha, Yshtola said she'd spank us! Can't wait to react to that on twitter!