XII was one of the first mainline games I played through, and I really got into it. After playing most of the rest, I get why it doesn’t come off as a “proper” FF game. That said, I always wanted more just like it. Perhaps a spinoff, or maybe ivalice alliance could be reinstated as a more tactics-focused FF franchise while the main line goes on doing… whatever it did for XVI.
Americans elected Trump, so of course they’re cool with this kind of behavior. They’ve proven it. Biden is all but free to pardon whoever he damn well pleases at this point. No one will stop Trump from doing it.