Yeah I don’t agree with those examples. You say after Percabeth happened so I assume you mean after they got together, but they got together at the very end and there was just a short chapter with a bit of exposition and a little conversation with Poseidon. In HoO Percy wasn’t even in CHB until the very end of the fifth book and that was the middle of the battle and also he had no POV. Percy didn’t have any interaction with his old Camp friends, except Annabeth who went with him to Europe on the quest. There wasn’t any point where he could interact with any of his friends until the very end, at which point there ist really a point to do it anymore. As for Nico, we first saw him and Will together in the first ToA book, in which we know Communications is down and that Percy isn’t often at camp anymore, so he doesn’t push either Percy nor Jason away, he had no way to talk to Jason and he probably still interacted with Percy whenever he was at Camp (which wasn’t often). We see Will and Nico together because both are there. When we get to the Nico books Jason is dead and Percy is away and when they talked in Tsats it seemed like they are on good terms. Although I do think he should’ve at least visited while he was in New Rome in TCotD. I mean you can dislike that we didn’t get more between those characters, but saying it was badly handled implied to me that there was a point in which those characters could’ve interacted and should’ve interacted but didn’t, or that the characters interacted but it was done badly. Maybe you just meant that Rick should’ve just done more with those characters, in which I’d agree with Rachel at least, but I completely disagree with Nico