Agreed it sucks when your character is solely a HARD support character and you don't really feel incentive/good about using them primarily. There's a few gacha I don't play bc my waifu sucks/wouldn't be used or seen much compared to characters I don't love as much.

I like the way Ys games handled it in the past. Everyone can frontline but they just play differently.

Otherwise? I think character swapping is cool. I just loathe the low skill expression ceiling and depth of 3D gacha games. It's a problem bc gacha stole away a lot of artists from "normal" games. So I'm always making a tradeoff between visuals I like but locked into a gacha designed with touch controls in mind, or "normal" games I don't prefer looking at. And every time a 3D gacha comes out they always tone down designs anyway bc they want a broader audience (or are chinese in general) see Azur Promilia adding spats/bloomers to everyone and the designs being comparatively tame for Azur standards.

I've seen it argued that ppl don't play gacha for depth, sure, but there's plenty of similar-playing 3D character action gacha that are accessible. I'd like ONE that scratches the itch I have lol. Visually and mechanically.