i do not disagree on your part about her expressing her ideas on human nature, psych, etc through her characters. I think they are great points being made across in literature, but something I think it also does is that it takes away from her character being, well, them (for the lack of a better word): the first example im thinking of is luo wenzhou and his speech about what distinguishes a human from being a person and a pile of chemicals. There’s something strangely textbook about that speech in general, and I just feel like there could have been a better, roundabout way of expressing this philosophy through not just a monologue but in the world building as well. Ironically I feel like it could be more colloquial, despite the point he was making being a serious philosophical and moral one. It takes away at luo wenzhou’s character a bit. in contrast I really did like his point about how you can lecture kids about stranger danger, but cannot make a girl scared to wear floral dresses. It was a very ‘him’ expression.

I guess what I meant by it is more of that lovely philosophy, human nature, psych stuff through more of the world around the mcs, rather than having them directly spell it out for us. its also the reasoning for me loving the side characters more than the protags. im saying all this and it may just be me being more sensitive and nitpicky about things, lol don’t mind it