Generational skips are bad. Playing the wrong sex Emperor/Empress is punishing for no reason. The player isn't even warned or hinted that this is a thing. Monsters just flat out get more jacked according to how many battles the player has fought. Extremely dumb concept, think "Last Remnant" but kinda worse honestly. So you essentially are punished pretty harshly for trying to characters, experimenting, gearing up multiple teams etc. It should be the complete opposite.

Missed opportunity. Poorly implemented. Square Enix is simply not a good company any more.

Could have been good.

Great non-conventional JRPG