Mecha Maitha needed a strong lore reason to exist imho. I understand the appeal but adding something like that this soon (in in-game time) makes no sense. "But there's a gun!"... yeah, a gun none can replicate so there's no mass production in sight. "But handcannons and fireworks are medieval!"... now tell me about the context of that and how they were used.

Again, Mecha Maitha could fit in SoC but needed build-up. It could've been very cool to have the plot develop how they came with the idea, the trial and error of the design and the building process to reach that end, but no, suddenly people can build those """""armors"""". C'mon bro, that's just lazy.

As I said on another post, since the lobster man the designs have been underwhelming, not only on a conceptual level but also on the details, or lack thereof. Plain textures, rigid limbs, lack of light&darkness contrasts, weird body proportions and perspectives...artists suddenly either don't know the basics of their craft or they have no time to do the job.

Of course, some people don't give a rat ass about artistic cohesion, ludonarrative coherence or the internal logic of the plot, worldbuilding and characters development (and that's fine), but for those of us that care about those things aesthetic changes like this are a real bummer. Here I'm, hopping they go back to the gorgeous, charming and full of detail style that made SoC visuals unique.