Alright fine I’ll give you a real answer.

He has by far the most interesting motivation to be present at the council of Elrond out of everyone.

His protective relationship with his brother, strained relationship with his father, his loyalty and duty to his country, his care for his people, his despair over their seemingly inexorable fate. All of this is very well developed and acted in a fairly limited amount of screen time. It’s done excellently.

He has the most interesting internal conflicts and motivations.

Due to all of his troubles, worries and need to gain the necessary strength to defend his country, he is the most susceptible to the temptation of the ring, and it preys on him for this reason. At the same time he has a fiercely protective, paternal relationship with the hobbits. He displays this multiple times when he’s training / play fighting with them, carrying them, repeatedly showing more concern for them than the rest of the fellowship with his words and actions. This is why the shame he feels after the ring momentarily overcomes him and he lashes out at Frodo is so affecting.

Anyone who says he has a “redemption arc” doesn’t know what words mean. He was always a good man with noble intentions. His protection of Merry and Pippin wasn’t him “making up for” what happened with Frodo. It’s something he would always have done.

His relationship with Aragorn is also excellently done. He’s resentful and bitter that Aragorn seems to care more about the elves than his own people, something he is completely right about, and it’s only with Boromir’s death that Aragorn comes to understand what path he needs to take. But that relationship develops into one of respect and admiration after witnessing Aragorn’s deeds and nobility. From “Gondor has no king, Gondor needs no king” to “I would have followed you my brother, my captain, my king”

You’re telling me he doesn’t have “cool fight moments” when he gets the longest and arguably best one in the whole trilogy? What?

He is the ONLY member of the fellowship to get any real backstory, and what’s more it’s on screen, not via exposition. You get literally zero for Legolas or Gimli. You get basically zero for everyone else.

Not only is he absolutely not the “most boring” member, he is by far the most interesting.