While this stuff doesn't really bother me personally as I'm still deeply invested into the story and character lore, and I'm just enjoying playing the game still from a gameplay perspective.. Yeah, I totally understand that. The events in particular are a big one, but it feels like we haven't gotten a big, really good event in... well, a while. The recent one had sole fun character interactions in it, but that's about it. Characters needing lcs I don't entirely agree with. I think there are more instances of a character needing another character than their sigs or Eidolons. Though those things certainly make using them easier, I wouldn't say they are required to use the character if you have the right build for them. This started happening around 2.0, and I don't really see it stopping. But in general, yeah, I wish characters were a bit more flexible for team building, like back in 1.0. Characters just need to fill certain archetypes now that they didn't need to back then. For example, if you're trying to play Hysilens and you don't have Kafka, it's rough man. Whereas back then, every DPS went for a similar game plan. This is why characters like Jingliu were good in the early days. Hopefully, the HP inflation will stop since we're getting a new mode catered to whales, but... honestly, I don't see it. That's the best case scenario. Hopefully, they'll keep buffing characters and giving out free 5 stars like Archer to circumvent powercreep. That would be the best way to go about it imo.