If they are turning some ancient supernatural deities mentioned once in a book 5 years ago into marketable whalebait, it means the game story is complete ass and we will never actually find out what the upside down statue was about, or what the door deep bellow Sumeru leads to.

>new characters define the challenges we meet
>old characters fail without proper builds, team building and execution
>powercreep is normalised
Genshin is ass.