Part of me wishes the Astral Express did things Hi3 style in the sense that they get tons of alts that continue throughout the story. This way instead of having to devote screen time shilling whoever's the latest character and leaving TB an incompetence while the rest of the AE does nothing, they get steady releases. Sure, Dan and March get new stuff but the constant need for new character shilling is part of why Amphoreus's pacing is just horrible. They start from 0 each new character and need to shill their way back up, then for the next location it's the same when they introduce new characters, etc. It's the Genshin format where most characters don't exist outside their introduced location except at least they didn't blow 8 patches needing to shill every new character.