I agree on that point. They put in too many, and way too fast.

I just wish that some characters also didn't have their lore/Big Moments locked behind events that go away. (As a suffering Albedo fan.) It makes me annoyed as hell. 

As a new player, I feel that. I've taken to just looking up the flagship events I've missed on YouTube, but it kinda sucks really hard they haven't just put them into the game permanently like they did for HSR. Knowing there's a Lantern Rite where Venti visits Liyue, as well as knowing I'll never get to experience it by playing myself is really a big bummer.

I think at least with Natlan, they held back on the "too many, too fast", considering Kachina and Ororon both play big roles in the story despite being 4-stars.

Your guess is as good as mine when they've been asking for replays for the longest time so they can replay them in different languages. I think because the comic covered a lot of characters (Amber's family, Diluc's father, even mentions about Jean and her sister, even Kaeya being a jerk to Collei which is forever one of my top ten Kaeya moments) they expected people to actually read everything for Mond. They realized afterwards that people didn't. Or if they did they pointed out issues. (Kaeya having a vision before he had a vision) - but since then they've been trying to do better after Inazuma specifically.

I actually feel you on the Kazu-mary sue, because even if he's not, he's got the vibes focus on him that he is and it was one of the most annoying things about Inazuma for me besides just the terribad writing which they acknowledged in later livestreams. God somehow Kazu was my most hated when I was expecting Ayaka. No one was happy with it. Legend has it that they pissed off so many people about it they actually tried for Sumeru. I know my personal feelings on the game are very different on Fontaine as most - but like I *like* Venti. Heck, I even thought Ganyu was tolerable, but characters like Dori and Kazu drove me up the wall. At least Kazu was useful for abyss.

Though, if history repeats itself, HSR is their testing grounds for most of their upcoming features - so if HSR has it, it's got a maybe 60 percent chance you'll be able to replay somethings. I don't know how much tbh. From what they addressed the reason they don't have it cause they didn't have focused view which they do now so hoyo. Tbh, I just want an Albedo rerun. Where is my tiny man. You come back for cats but you don't come back for your bloody birthday.

I hate to be the bearer or terrible news but I am like..mostly certain Albedo will never see a rerun unless it's on that Mond combined banner from now on. I'm pretty sure that was the intention of it, to just get rid of some solo running banners and combine them, so there were less banners altogether. 

Maybe he'll make an appearance alongside Shenhe.

Incidentally, while I have mild dislike for or just generally don't care about a good chunk of the genshin cast, the list of who I hate / Can't stand / whatever is actually pretty small. I think it's like...four people.

Dori, Diona, Faruzan, and Mona.

I hate...everything about Dori tbh. Diona's voice and attitude annoy me. Faruzan's character also annoys me and tbh she just reminds me of a Discount Miku when...I never really got into the Miku craze. Mona I just kinda disliked for mixed reasons. I lost too many times to her, and I hated her story quest. So it's less her fault and more personal reasons. Kujou Sara almost makes it on this list because I can't take her seriously.

Everyone else is pretty much I don't care about them enough to be bothered by their presence or it's more feeling bored than hate. Or they are the characters I like.

Tbf the only mmo I play is ff, and whenever my main healer friend "acts up" it's justified. They aren't the type to whine but you can bet your ass if you're being stupid and standing  in aoes you could have avoided they'll make you suffer and wait a bit to be rezz'd. Yes they're a healer but at that point you kinda deserve a bit of a salt Mage as we like to call it. They're our healer not a "get out of being stupid free" card. And I'm sating this as someone who has been the stupid dps and gotten murked on mechanics. 

On the other hand there are some pretty bad healers. Like Genuine Bad. I've gotten healers who run ahead impatiently trying to be tank or some garbage and then die because...they aren't. Or healers being overconfident and demanding bigger pulls, being unable to keep up, and the party wiping. I also knew someone who always wanted to be party support but then kept chickening out or whining about mechs or difficulty unless the dungeon was under their level. As a dps, I sit in a pretty responsibility free zone and I'm content with it. My job is to do damage which is literally the easiest job.

That's fair and tbh I respect you for it. Something about healing kicks up my anxiety and I don't want to be responsible for other people. I think mainly my perspective on trying to be a healer has been colored by the expectation that I'll be immediately pounced on for being bad at it. Like...I've seen people dogpile on healers that were trying their best but still new to it and I don't wanna deal with that crap.

I've had someone get mad at me for not knowing the mechs of a dungeon I never ran before lol.

I also witnessed a fellow dps (they were playing Viper) consistently run past the tank and die. Funny shit.