I'm almost at the end of the game where they have their Evangelion congratulations moment, and now it really hits me how they just refused to write anything important for Iroha to do. They have a scene at the start of the game where she says goodbye in a world where people can just teleport around and hang out on the floating isles without any flying dragons. She's allowed to care about the end of the world. Even Sakaki should be here, he should have been the Volkanon of this game. They're the first people you meet! Anyone is more relevant than Mauro "I'm looking for treasure that I have no idea what it could be or if it exists at all but I'm here to fight because why the fuck not"
And Pilika had SOME involvement, so why is she getting shafted too? I had her in my party when facing Kamurosaki, and then they talk about how they have to tell her later. There's so much of the story that feels unbalanced. Kaguya should be doing more too, and she shows only shows up for a scripted fight that literally lasts 5 seconds, and then disappears again. I'd rather it just be the gods helping me out for the finale than the game reminding me Ikaruga exists.