I will concede on the steal part, WK, as I always miss that in games it's not included in. Although it's not the end of the world for me, I guess, because the game gives you enough in the rewards to make it even out anyway. But generally speaking, pretty much all the other games I still held X to win unless I was farming items.
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I don’t think it’s braindead. It is braindead to me. And mg experience is very fresh in my mind, so there’s very little room for ambiguity here
But is it any more braindead than the FFI-X? I am serious when I say I held X to win for 95-99% of my battles in those games. FFXIII level capping me made things so much more interesting, it meant I had to pay attention to paradigm shifts in a decent number of the battles, and almost every single boss.

I agree Sahz was a major plus point to the earlier parts of the game. I do like a voice of reason, as you put it - the 'straight man' I think is the trope name?

I honestly forgot about Dysley. He was such a meh villain for me.

As for Vanille, I figure it's like a lost puppy kind of thing, they latch onto someone they feel will keep them safe when they lose their initial parent/owner/guardian/leader.