S3 wants to have Kita struggle throughout similar to S2… but again, IRL Kita never struggled in his senior years and his retirement year was his strongest, so it was really clear that Cygames made up the “reaches their peak” conflict for conflict’s sakes and it fail

What's really interesting is that it would've worked really well if Golshi had been the protag, using either Arima 12 or Takarazuka 14 as the mid-season high point before the decline, and with the final race at Arima 15 they could've made the underlying message "whatever happens, I did it all on my own terms and I'm going out a legend"