I personally am content to not be the hero of the universe. I am content with the idea of being just a person in this fantasy world. While many people agree with me on this, many people do not.

However, since we are the hero of the universe, it's obnoxious to suddenly not be and pretend like we aren't the one to take out Sphene. That's what we do now. Fortunately, Yoshi-P has said the Warrior of Light will return to being the hero of the world very soon.

I am content for what we do to be much simpler though and I think that is needed in order to reset our power. For example, we could get locked in a prison for some weeks which weakens our physical strength and has a lasting impact on it as our aetherial aptitude is experimented on like Krile was, then we escape and go after a run-of-the-mill thief and fight their minions through the dungeons, culminating in a simple duel with them at the end.

I don't think we need the scions there are at all and we could just go alone (like 6.1's patch art falsely suggested we would), I think they are just concerned that different players are attached to different scions. But they really should just send us somewhere alone.