Name calling's a bit beyond us, isn't it folks? We're judging a game here, not each other. Anyway, people are obviously going to have different standards or thresholds on how "slow" the game can be before it's just not worth it. While yeah, the datalogs were lazy and the plot made no sense whatsoever, the actual gameplay was entertaining enough and I liked that I had to constantly reevaluate my tactics as I got new skills or party members. Once you hit end game and everybody can be anything, there were still characters better suited to different things. They weren't carbon copies, which I thought was rather impressive. Not many previous FFs have managed to have characters so diverse at end game, I feel.