The questionable ethical foundation of HSR (Xianzhou arcs) writing

As I said, I was going to expand on this point because it's too complicated of a concept for a single bullet point.

How Ethics Inform Writing

( Long explanation of the basic principles )

In short, what the narrative frames as "good" vs "bad" is determined by the writers' ethics. We must keep this in mind as we continue to dissect HSR's 2.4 and 2.5 patches.

What HSR writers consider "good"

There's four major conflicts the mainline narrative of patches 2.4 and 2.5 uses to drive the plot. I'll go through each separately and break down what the narrative frames as "good" vs "bad" and why there are...issues.

( 4 arcs, all bad )

In conclusion:

Even looking past the terrible technical aspects of HSR writing, the ethics underlying the story is genuinely horrible. Again, this does not refer to what the characters consider good or bad. I'm talking about what the narrative is portraying as "good" vs "bad". To concoct a situation such that ethically unsound actions can be portrayed in a positive light does not speak well of the writers' as people.

We have confirmation of Jing Yuan's age range during Quintent era?

According to this post, patch 2.5 confirmed Jing Yuan was <100 years old during Quintet era. tanithryudo, can you confirm or deny this claim? Is this a thing? Am I going to have to re-think my fanfic?!