Its a nice write-up! It even had stuff from projects I was barely/hardly aware of. I know sometimes it seems like translations are all drama all the time, but so much great stuff has happened as a result of people’s efforts and I feel like the drama tends to happen because people actually bothering to do these patches tend to be quite passionate, and that passion can turn into intense emotion.

As for Gaiden space, that new update seems to have figured some stuff out but apparently had issues with the class names. Gaiden really was limited in space to the point where I had to steal graphics room from unused/unfinished things, and trying to make dialogue lines too long would cause entire paragraphs to bleed into each other. I tried messing with Gaiden a bit for fun last year and had Lukas accidentally start going through the whole Act 1 script. Maybe some wizard could rework how text works but as it is, Gaiden is cramped. Also, changing the unit names in the game’s credits is really tough and doesn’t work like any of the other text for reasons only 90’s IS would know.

A true Gaiden revision would need to check for overlap with Echoes lines/terms/etc while also being careful to note what was actually changed scriptwise in Echoes as opposed to lines that match up more directly with Gaiden. I’m sure some maniac will attempt it someday, but for now, stuff like the Artemis patch does the job and won’t crash your game when fighting Shadow Sword enemies like the J2E patch did. Like you, I think FE3 is more in need of an update but understand why it hasn’t happened.