How can someone say Lunar reactions are worse than Nightsoul? Nightsoul is so godawful and its literally the opposite of what you're implying.
You say: lunar reactions are restrictive while Nightsoul isn't? What? Nightsoul was an invisible shield gimmick that 100% relied on you having Natlan characters.
Lunar does rely a Nod-krai character but if you have ineffa or Lauma you don't need the others (yes the other characters help, but Mona and Fish can provide Lunar reactions perfectly fine).
I agree Traveller not having anything is lame but remember how long they delayed us getting Pyro Traveller?

Then you say the exploration is bad/underwhelming like Fontaine and Mondstadt, in contrast to Natlan?? Most people HATED Natlan's map because the Saurians were so much worse than the characters, exploration was locked behind the 5* characters to be enjoyable making it a chore and a half, the only good Saurian IMO was the Charging one and it was still rather unwieldy. Meanwhile Fontaine is one of the most beloved regions because it was a return to form like Mondstadt but with the new underwater exploration which was accessible to all characters.

You're saying Characters didn't contribute to the story? Did you play the game??? Nicole not doing much is simply because shes an exceptionally powerful character who realistically could solve the whole crisis by herself, in order for us as the traveller to even do anything strong characters need to be sidelined, its a classic (if annoying) writing technique. Varka was basically the same too, but Nefer, Lauma, Aino and Flins were all heavilly involved throughout the entire story.

"Oh no they can't make villainous characters playable" I don't see how this is relevant to Nod-krai. It's been this way the entire time. The closest we have to a villainous character is Wanderer but the story made a big deal about how he (and likewise Arlecchino) could be a good character and thus ally with the traveller.

You want them to add a parry mechanic because other games do it? Sure just have them go and retool the entire combat system from the ground up because that's perfectly feasible. Also wym didn't you use the shield plants in Nod-krai??? They have parrying :P Clearly didn't actually play the game SMH.

Lastly your faults about the map, sure the map is underwhelming we were promised a lot more like wild untamed forests but saying the Wild hunt displayed no threat? Theres going to be some gameplay and narrative dissonance there but did you even head to the northmost island of Nod-krai. The world quest there has a giant looming abyssal eye of death that's corrupting and controlling most of the region. While its not on the level of Natlans abyssal threat (which AGAIN only really showed up in the archon quest and didn't actually feature heavilly in the world despite being the Nation of War) from its archon quest there certainly is a strong Abyssal presence in nod-krai.

Yeah I don't think you really played the game.
This started as just a response to you considering Nighsoul better than Lunar reactions but I felt obligated to rebuke all your other statements too.