The only REAL problem with Dawntrail

[Carolingian]

the different tribes too squeeky clean

Yeah, this really bothered me as well. Peace, harmony, and the power of friendship is nice and all but it's also pretty boring in a game.

I'm more than fine with doing some ARR-like world building with the different tribes while exploring a completely new continent, but when you compare the tribes in Tural to those in Eorzea it's pretty much night and day. In Tural everyone just gets along and is very understanding of each other, and when they disagree with each other they still trade with each other and don't come to blows. Then look at Eorzea and the state of the Sylphs, the invading Sahagin, and even the racism towards duskwight Elezen and it's all just way more interesting.

It also hurts the gameplay because it makes the first half of the MSQ just a bunch of talking about each others rich cultures and being very understanding and impressed about them instead of fighting interesting threats. And if you do fight (mostly during Fates and side-quests) it's mostly just against wildlife because everyone else gets along and loves peace too much. Again, compare it to ARR and you'll see there's way more actual gameplay that has you fighting. And not just against wildlife but also against interesting enemies/tribes like the Ixal, Kobolds, and Amaljaa.

[ThaCa]

Tbh considering how dull the current PvE design is for overworld enemies and how painfully easy the solo duties are despite being bit flashful, I don't mind if they would get completely binned.

Either seriously redesign the questing part or let me just enjoy a movie of the story without pointless walk around interruptions so I can get to other stuff after it's over.

[Zakuyia]

The real issue besides Va is pacing, sense of urgency, lack there of common sense, a sense of story direction, scions being paper weifgts wol a potted flower.

To ppl saying its cause we have main charecter syndrom...if I wanted to be secondary charecter to that exten I would play WoW.

No let me direct you to a story that does it right. Hildebrand. Hildebrand does the shoving us to side to tell another story right. What we have with Dawntrail is storm blood 2.0 too many stories being told at 1 time with no proper breaks in between it. Some ppl could connect I just couldn't then there the thing with erenville that was literally just a wtf moment, and krille literally be casted to side like trash. Consistent story telling may have save the story but the story is on of main messy issues in this game....