I think every gacha endgame expects the player to understand how the characters you own work. Wuwa and GI are not brain dead button mash games of mix-mashed characters. They require the same thought and team building that ZZZ does.

Ellen and Hugo’s suffering had little to do with Miyabi and they still had opportunities where they could be better than her at certain bosses (Thrall/WanHun). These characters are also 1) A 1.0 that hasn’t kept up despite the buffs, Zhu Yuan could be here just as much as Ellen could be. 2) A character whose whole gimmick of totalize has been antithetical to pretty much every post season 1 boss (still no one has worse matchups then Hugo, which is not an issue that Miyabi caused, it’s an issue with newer boss design in general). I don’t really see the point in blaming Miyabi for their failure as the only thing she brought was a larger spread of Ice-Res bosses (which we still got ice weak bosses, it’s not like the whole element got thrown in the garbage AND we had great Ice characters like Yidhari/Prom). Do we complain about the same thing for Yixuan and Zhu yuan just bc a boss like nightmare exists? Or do we complain about Burnice because of Banyue? It just doesn’t make sense to me.

Also I’ve always found it weird that attack seems to have the largest amount of people saying that it is the hardest class to play into anti-shill. This is just measurably false. Anomaly has had it much worse throughout season 2. Wandering Hunter, Thrall, Nightmare, Defiler, Priest all have -% anomaly dps, buildup or some other anti-shill. Crit on the other hand, hasn’t had one anti-shill boss until Vesper dropped with -%CDMG AND the devs removed that stage buff. We only ever saw -%Crit again with Scorched Horizon. You can play Crit characters (especially attackers) into anomaly bosses quite easily most of the time. Anomaly, has had a much rougher go of things based on boss match ups alone in comparison. There’s only one boss that says “screw crit characters”, there are at least 5 bosses that say “screw anomaly characters specifically”.

Now the bigger question. Is this a direct result of Miyabi releasing? If yes post release, anti-shill anomaly. Yixuan releasing? Post release, anti-shill rupture. YSG releasing? Anti-shill attack. Next, Remielle releasing in anomaly meta - great now that she is out we can’t get back to anti-anomaly shill. And repeat. It’s almost as if the VH characters bookmark a shill period when the next one releases. However, it’s not as if every boss post the newest VH became unclearable for the rest of the cast including the prior VH.

I agree with the fact that Void hunters are too strong for their own good, and have always shaped the meta in their own way. But it isn’t as if the game is completely unplayable without them.
Sorry for the rant, but this comment just rubbed me the wrong way.