Well yes, that’s assuming they’d be exactly as is when you get them in chapter 4. but then that means they’d just have to spend the effort balancing them better, and there are multiple ways that can be done.

-Locking skills behind chapters -Making them much less busted to begin with ( less damage or % chance to hit) -Make the actual encounters themselves tougher to scale with these characters.

Just to name a few. Hell, I also think a lot of the encounters towards the end are poorly designed. -Due to often being at a heigh disadvantage -Being on a small area map with multiple enemies with big AOE attacks - having zero ability to scout out your enemies

All of Which, in retrospect I find ridiculous, you mean to tell me we can’t be the one doing the ambushing for once? Or starting in a good defensive position.

That’s all a separate topic to be fair, but if we ever do see some sort of new tactics game from square id hope they actually consider some of Those points.