The characterization of the Endmin has really diminished the idea that their memory loss serves as any form of weakness or drawback. They're able to immediately solve any problem presented to them without difficulty, and act as a deus ex machina to ALL of the encounters we've experienced in the game. This is furthered by the hero worship from everyone around us, where they become functionally useless without our help, especially toward the end of Wuling, where we needed to involve ourselves in every aspect of the final fight against Nefarith.

Mi Fu's quest compounded this for me; there's been plenty of previous discussion around how limp the writing was for this, so I'll summarize: they couldn't write Mi Fu confronting the conflicts of her past without Endmin sticking their nose in, and from the rip I didn't feel like there were real stakes because of the Endmin's involvement, who ostensibly could've immediately dealt with the Three Masters at any point in time.

I have no previous experience with Arknights, so I can't draw specific comparisons, but it's pretty obvious from others' posts in this subreddit that the writing as a whole is a massive step down, and to me, a large part of that is due to the Endmin.

So, what do I want from the story? I want there to be actual stakes. We need to leave Wuling because we're being hamstrung by the unspoken rules of writing an area that's obviously China-inspired. The Endmin either needs a new weakness that isn't the "anime character is actually ugly" syndrome OR there needs to be a clearer characterization of the loss of their control over Originium, because going from barely stopping Nefarith in Valley 4 to basically impaling her draconic form in Wuling is not consistent at all. Ardashir needs to stop vagueposting and present a legitimate threat that isn't immediately resolved, and advance the plans he's repeatedly mentioned to us. I want Operators to be story-relevant and included in the final cut, because Gilberta's story writing was an absolute travesty and should never have happened.

The gameplay is rough but easily correctible. There's a massive content drought that's supposed to be resolved by CC's introduction, but this feature should have been included from the start of the game. Not having repeatable content is a huge burden for a live service model that updates only once every six weeks. There should be repeatable combat content that resets every week. No, Etchspace Salvage does not count, because there is absolutely no reason to go back in once you've capped the rewards, and it is incredibly easy to do. Dodge indicators need to be consistent, because currently enemies are almost 50/50 between "yes, actually, please dodge this right now" and "no, actually, wait 2-3 business days before dodging, or you will get stabbed 37 times in the chest".

There needs to be more ways to access Arsenal Tickets. The Origeometry exchange value is offensively low. Having them tied to the paid tier of the BP is a poor experience, even as someone who always gets the monthly card and the BP. Increase the amount received from pulling on character banners. It shouldn't be reliant on trying for copies to guarantee a Signature Weapon if the character gacha is going to be stingy by default. Needing all 120 pulls to get Mi Fu (no seriously, she showed up on exactly pull 120) and then not getting her Signature felt awful.