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>It's such a significantly more meaningful story for it to be about creations surpassing their creators than "uhhh the gods made them ok?"
making the quints creators/overlords is a quick and succinct way of answering the classic "if they're robots, who built them?" question without having to force anything contrived. having them originate from one of the primes completely misses the point of what made them work in the first place and makes their whole faction feel like an afterthought. I also just think it's cool and compelling to have a synthetic vs organic scenario where the usual morality is reversed.
>anything that tries to turn that magical just weakens the whole story
I don't mind a bit of pulpiness or mysticism. my ideal origin story is Primus existing as a sort of god-like energy being before the quints use him/it to create cybertron, similar to the c'tan in warhammer. that way there's elements of truth to both origin stories that either side can exploit to make themselves look more legitimate.
>And equally, identifying all the primes and making them such a small group makes the whole Transformers universe feel so small and limited
I especially felt this way about their portrayal in TFO. It also puts Alpha Trion in a weird place and makes him seem way less cool than he should be.
