I am personally very glad that the time skip only five years so those theories of the protags being Sycamore's children could finally be put to rest. I was very tired of the regurgitated unfunny memes of him with Grace. I consider this a net win for both yumes and fujos. He is also separated from ZA's horrible plot, so he'll never have to see his city become a dilapidated hellhole with a living Prism Tower. I can only hope he is stuck in a dimension where the story is good!