>>281262370One of the worst changes for sure was having the Founder’s powers affecting the other shifters too.
If the shifters were immune from the control of the founder (which would be credible since they all came from the very same power) the founder would be balanced enough to make sense:
>can only control the average eldians joe and shit them into mindless idiots >creating the colossal ones takes time and energy while also being very unreliable since these are just big and slow boys trumpling everything around>potentially every other shifter, which used go be the factions of the noble, could usurp you attempting eating you as long they had any royality from their sides>if they are immune to you, this means they can do wathever they want with their powers, even plotting your demise.Would’ve made the whole titan war from 100 years before more credible , which could’ve even ended with karl the cuck just giving up after everything went shit.
That and also how the founder’s powers got retconned in the final arc, isayama shouldn’t have gifted all these powers like summoning the previous shifters and absolute mind raping abilities.
Keeping it just to “can control the titans and the eldian normies” would’ve added well to the tragedy of the founder, where the godlike powers are very limited and Eren could use these only to move his super genocide weapon and without a proper control of it (like, he can just think he is moving the titans following specific paths, but not what the titans are destroying unless he is phisically present there)