>>11973429
No it's not. Square fired their old-school in FFX's mid-development, and they wanted to focus on new young talent to pander to young gamers. X-2 is the first thing they come up with it, and what is it? Teen girls save the world from evil old people because only teens know what's best for everyone and old people are useless, stupid, and have poop on them." And anyone who's not a teen counts as old. So all the good characters from the first one (Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri) are forced to step aside and play the roles of NPCs.
It was the most blatantly pandering FF ever made, and showed that they really wanted to bring in a new generation of J-pop teens.