Its one of those things where a developer can't hire a real writer, and/or the one writer they have is never contested and all their battrout craziness makes it in the game whether it makes sense or not. I'm not sure what started this, because I feel like FF4 probably didn't have a real writer, but it started an era of more "real" storytelling, which I feel like made it through FF6 and maybe halfway through 7. But 7 definitely started off another trend where things just go, and each consecutive game takes it farther. Other than the black sheep of 12 and the online games. But yeah. i don't like anyone in 13. The hallway thing was the least of their problems

They wanted to make a female Cloud, and I guess that's how they envision Cloud if he had a real personality. I guess he's brash and arrogant and beat up Zack when he disagreed with him instead of talking things out