I wanted to punch Algus so bad. Guy was just a superb classist prick.
Honestly wish they would’ve returned to doing stories that included the kind of nuance/class warfare that FF Tactics had but I don’t think the people writing these games in the PS1 era continued to really have much influence (xenogears was a particularly fun one).
Gaia and Ryne (and also Sadu and Cirina) in FFXIV are incredibly obviously a lesbian couple but they won’t come out and say it.