There is nothing wrong with P4's friendship message to be honest, I think my issue might be how overexposed P4 has been since it's probably the farthest away from the core series, so I'm kind of digging the idea that P5 feels like it's taking it's cues from the pre-P3 titles. It's interesting how we've been seeing dungeons (that actually look fun to traverse, which will be a first for the Persona series) and just waltzing about the city, but we haven't seen much on the social link aspect. This makes me wonder what they might be doing on that end to shake it up; since P5 feels like an actual evolution to what P3 introduced as a game concept, and P4 refined. Super stoked about this game.