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>I didn't like that the political story got sidelined for the Lucavi stuff
I go back and forth on this. FFT has to be a video game, and since it has "Final Fantasy" in the title, they couldn't really avoid killing God on a ruined airship by the end. I don't think it crowds out the political intrigue, though, and you can see Delita using Ramza to solve his "Lucavi disposal problem," and then Ramza getting neatly pigeonholed as a heretic, as reinforcing the game's major theme about true heroism being a largely thankless task. Delita's arc is pretty much finished anyway by the time Folmarv's plot takes focus.
Sure, the Lucavi stick out like sore thumbs in an otherwise grounded War of the Roses type of plot (in a magical, post-airship society, granted), but I think if the Wiegraf fight ended without a Velius or something similar in phase 2, it would have felt anticlimactic. Sort of like the duel at the end of a Western. Is it realistic? No, they needed to punctuate those moments with something genre-appropriate.
Plus, the game needs its instances of "here's what various flavors of evil people who want power do when they actually get it." I think that's something that people who only play the first chapter will miss about Wiegraf's character arc.