yeah while I do enjoy Tales sidequests, I wouldn't mind seeing them disappear either as they go pretty overboard with them.
Plus ever since Abyss they got sort of annoying with how they were broken up into parts and you could end missing the entire sidequest if you missed one part of it.
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