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Rean's main struggle throughout every single CS game is being a martyr, being afraid his power will hurt people he cares about, and accepting people love him. Sure the situations in which these issues are tested can change slightly, but these things are what the writers wanted to explore and it took them 5 fucking games to come to a conclusion to these things.
And to add insult to injury, Rean always, without fail in every game, has a woman basically crying in his arms telling him "I love you. We love you. Please do not put yourselves in harm's way." And he goes "Haha..." and doesn't get it and so we recycle this fucking tired plot point for the 5th fucking time.
Pic rel is a character from a fucking LN, the very thing that heavily inspired CS, and this is one aspect of his character arc that gets addressed early on and resolved, and it is done like 10x better than how CS did it Rean.

To recapitulate, the problem is how repetitive this is. Yeah they could have made this Rean's one thing and built around it. But they beat him over the head with the answer over and over and in perfectly reasonable moments to have this resolved it just doesn't get resolved. Nothing in CS necessitates it being 5 games long.