C'rrahsa

FF used to have its appeal to people who wanted to try video games that *didn't* require expert reflexes. Some people play turn based games because it's the only thing accessible to them. Others, because they are out to relax and action isn't relaxing. If FF loses the things that made people willing to play it in the first place, it loses an edge it had by being in that niche. Then it just competes with every other hard game for the attention of those who are good at gameplay, rather than those who are seeking to appreciate the slowlife storytelling part of it.

Just do the classic simple stories all over again. I've watched the series grow up from "fight the embodiement of True Evil" to "Hmmmm sophisticated villain motives, sympathetic development" all the way up to "let's argue for nihilism by finding faults with utopias we deliberately seeded with imperfections". At this point I long for an embodiment of pure evil that I can slay, instead of making life-or-death choices for a city of souls whose existence as "truly alive" or not has been story debate fuel since the days of original Star Trek. FF has become weary with controversy and causing people moral discomforts. To appeal to someone younger, they probably want to get AWAY from debates and trolley problems because that's the world that young people are out to escape FROM.