I feel Tidus is only whiny cause quite frankly, I find Jecht very charming and I honestly felt he was just doing what he felt was best for Tidus. He's a jerk cause he wants his boy to toughen up and instead he whines about it and sorta misses the point. Course maybe its because I was raised like Tidus and sorta understand where Jecht is coming from unlike you damn Millennials who grew up in the "oh my god I must protect my child from all evil influence" generation.

Vaan, is only annoying cause he's frankly lackluster compared to the rest of the cast. He wasn't suppose to be the lead and he's a terribly example of executive meddling.

Hope is annoying cause he's an over actor and despite the justifications Del tries to paint, he's actually much more irrational. He spends the first several hours after his moms death shuffling his feet while trying to figure out what he wants to do with Snow. He has to be talked into the whole vengeance thing despite the fact it seemed like an obvious irrational reaction for him to venture towards that doesn't require bitchy anti-mom Lightning to explain to him and then the game kinda makes the whole scenario absolutely ridiculous by having several cringe worthy coincidences occur to finally goad the damn kid into actually trying. When everything is finally said in done, he spends the rest of the game as a completely well adjusted child and becomes new obnoxious cause instead of whining about being a helpless loser without his mommy, now he's become MR "smurfing" Ray of Sunshine that gives off enough friendship/morale speeches, you would start thinking you were watching Yu-Gi-Oh!

If there is a legitimate reason to hate him, its because he's a complete rip-off of Ken Amada from Persona 3 except Ken is actually portrayed as a mentally disturbed child thrust into a fantastical situation and the climax of his story is much better. Hope doesn't lose all hope after he realizes he's been wrong about Snow and acting like a douche for 20 hours. Ken on the other hand actually thinks about killing himself after his confrontation and then spends much of his time afterwards debating about how he's going to move on past revenge.

Snow unknowingly makes the situation worse and makes the player actually hope Hope succeeds (curse his goofy name!) whereas Ken spends his time with his focus for revenge and actually starts to see he's not the evil SOB he thought he was and then spends time torn between revenge or not. Ken is just a better written character overall whereas Hope is a bit whiny. Throw in the fact the story loves Hope and constantly throws him into your face along with Vanille and its not surprising so many people got sick of the little bastard. Ken is just a better character overall and he's not whiny or a crybaby at all, instead he's someone who has forced himself to grow up faster mentally so he can get revenge, he's more of an adult than most of the cast. Ken changes himself of his own free will to get revenge and when everything is over, he now has to face the difficulty of going through life without a purpose. Some of the most endearing moments for the character is when he finally lets his emotional guard down and actually starts to act like a kid. You just want to hug the guy cause he's so mentally strong and his life is hard and painful. He's 4 years younger than Hope as well.

Hope on the other hand whines about trying to figure things out and is constantly being led around by all the other characters and told what to do with his life. He follows them like a yipping puppy. Its downright sickening. He acts like a damn 6 year old until Lightning finally slaps him around and makes the kid take his mouth out of his dead momma's *@# and actually grow a pair. He's not strong emotionally and sadly the whole experience of watching him grow is painful unless you seriously have a soft spot and find it uplifting but quite frankly I kept wanting to find his dead momma's corpse and slap it around cause she raised a pansy who can't do anything for himself. He's worse than Son Gohan and that's saying something...

Vivi... He has to deal with something that is very difficult and quite frankly its the type of problem where you can't simply say or do anything to make the situation better. He does whine but he also doesn't need 10-15 hours to realize he's competent. After the first freaking dungeon Vivi snaps out of his whiny attitude and becomes a competent member of the team. After the events of Dali and the Black Waltz, the character grows tremendously and doesn't spend the next few hours whining about how everything is hopeless and just being a bundle of emotion. He lets it simmer inside him and we witness later moments when he's true feelings show. Vivi is a stronger character than Hope, much like Ken is a strong character. He rolls with the punches and tries to cope as best as he can but the stories shows they struggle with it. Its not like everything is fine and dandy afterwards (like Hope) instead you watch them to continue to grow as the story goes along... except in Vivi's case where the writers chicken out but you can't win them all.