For me personally, it’s people not being able to understand the concept of pragmatism or nuance

Or people not understanding what the “power of friendship” actually is.

**Let’s start with the Fatui.**

The Tsaritsa’s goal is to overthrow the Heavenly Principles

To do this, she needs power external to Teyvat, since there isn’t much within Teyvat itself that can be used to defeat them.

To do this, she was looking for the Gnoses and using tools related to the Third Descender.

The main character is also a Descender. 

Anyway, this is the part I feel people don’t understand.

While it’s true that the Traveler has caused the Fatui a massive amount of trouble, they have also helped the Fatui in turn. 

The Fatui aren’t a monolith. While the Traveler might have a negative relationship with some members of the Fatui, they also have a positive relationship with others.

The Traveler is a Descender. 

I see some people getting mad that the Tsaritsa doesn’t try to punish or arrest them, but do they forget that she is in a war against another Descender who is used to fighting things in Teyvat?

She needs the help of a Descender. If she tries to antagonize the Traveler, she loses the help of an active Descender in her war against Celestia. Pragmatically, that would be extremely stupid.

Sure, the Traveler has caused the Fatui plenty of problems, but they are literally a Descender. 

They are vital to the fight against Celestia, so the higher ups trying to kill or arrest them makes zero sense.

Another thing that is controversial in Version 7 is the Traveler working with the Fatui, but I feel like people forget the context.

In Version 7.0, the Traveler was interested in getting in contact with the Tsaritsa to learn some information.

Hence, they contacted their Fatui friends for help. They weren’t going, “Oh, I want to help the Fatui,” or “I want to take down Celestia.”

The only time they seriously joined forces with the Fatui was because of Ronova. 

You have to keep in mind that this was because Ronova was after Paimon. She made it very clear that she would keep coming after her.

This is something the Fatui also have to deal with, so it’s literally the classic “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” situation. 

Of course they would temporarily team up with a group that has the same enemy as them, especially when that group has a high-ranking member who also wants Paimon to be safe.

We have to wait until Version 7.2 and beyond to actually judge the situation. The Traveler and the Fatui had a common enemy, hence why they worked together.

In fact, in 7.1, the Traveler states that they don’t want to be tied to the Tsaritsa’s court and asks them to change the title the Tsaritsa wants to bestow upon them.

So people getting this mad when we haven’t even seen how the Traveler interacts with the Fatui without the presence of a common enemy is weird to me.

**As for the “power of friendship**

in my view, the power of friendship is when someone gets a random power boost out of nowhere 

that is strong enough to let them beat someone they couldn’t beat before simply because they remembered their friends.

Or when a character wins only because they have friends, with friendship essentially being an actual power system.

Outside of maybe Natlan, has this actually happened in Genshin?

In Nod-Krai, they beat Rerir through planning and teamwork, with Columbina becoming strong enough after being boosted to temporarily fight and then trap him. 

There was massive planning involved. They studied and tracked him to figure out where he was.

Teamwork and the “power of friendship” aren’t interchangeable. It’s common sense to work with other people against a stronger opponent.

If they were just losing to Rerir in a straight fight, didn’t do any planning beforehand, and then suddenly beat him because of friendship, I could understand the criticism.    
But that didn’t happen.

As for Dottore, the same thing applies. There was a massive amount of planning involved in getting Columbina back.

They won for two reasons: 

Columbina was simply stronger than Dottore on paper, and Dotter was unlikely to kill them very early on because doing so would make the Traveler extremely difficult to convince.

You also have to keep in mind that during the final fight, Columbina was buffing and protecting everyone. 

The only reason Flins nefer and  Lauma could even fight was because of Columbina.

They didn’t win because they were “friends.” They won because Columbina was simply stronger, straight up.

**Note**:

Regarding the Fatui, I am also upset that the Traveler doesn’t even acknowledge or mention some of the messed-up things they did.

For example, the Jester ordering Dottore to do some of the things he did in Inazuma, the whole Delusion situation in Inazuma, and so on.

That part annoys me.

I don’t like them whitewashing the Fatui or failing to have the Traveler acknowledge the Fatui.

 and Tsaritsa’s role in these events.

However, I can also understand that we are still in Version 7.1, where we had a common enemy. 

I have to wait until Version 7.2 to see how their relationship plays out without a common enemy.

I also don’t like how the story handled Ronova and Mavuika.    
So while the story does have some issues, the things I mentioned above are not part of that list.

What is something you see in the genshin fandom that pisses you off?