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>Tidus is more interesting than lightning by a very large margin. Huge.
Not sure I agree on that. Muh daddy complex wasn't very interesting. Yuna completely mogs his entire existence. Everyone knows that. He's not even a real human being at the end of the day. He's an imaginary friend. He gets to zap in and out of existence multiple times kek. But I know what you mean. For a young male playing the game, you're going to identify with Tidus much more than Lightning. But identifying with a character =/= interested in the character.

>Id love her to wrestle with something more, a moral dilemma or something, give this bitch a existential crisis and have her emote for once
Did you forget about her Eidolon awakening scene? Odin attacks Hope and puts himself between Lightning and him. The entire fight long, Odin is attacking Hope relentlessly. You must protect Hope in gameplay in order to defeat Odin. Lightning wrestles with whether or not to abandon Hope to save herself. Her moral dilemma is facing up her own selfishness and desire to abandon other people to save herself. It's an existential crisis, where she must put aside her selfish desire to save an innocent person who can barely defend themselves.

The scene that follows this, is Hope and Lightning resting when Hope dreams of Lightning and calls her mother and she smiles. Then right after in the Gapra Whitewood, the first scenes of the game where her arc is on display. She puts Hope in charge of their party, inspiring him to fight and protect others. But when she gives Hope her dagger, she opens up another moral dillemma for herself. Is her eagerness to fight (to protect Serah) leading others (Hope) down a violent and dark path?

She has to further grow in order to realize these mistakes and correct them which doesn't happen until around Chapter 6 I think.