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because when she tried on her first day on the job people immediately started saying she was fake
so she decided to act how she thought they'd expect an Archon to act and that gradually devolved into being a mascot that nobody actually respects but they can sort of assume is a God
going off how things turned out for the other Archons, being less involved is definitely the right call anyways, Nahida is the only moderately responsible and successful one, and she delegates like 99% of labor
though I can PROMISE YOU her dialogue in the first two patches wasn't done with her becoming a tragic character in mind, that was definitely a late stage rewrite. They didn't even bother giving it any closure in the AQ proper.