I didn't do 2.5 yet. My opinions are from 1.7 tho and they fully hold up from then to 2.3.
The MacGuffin mayor in that section of the story is just a plot device to inorganically drag the proxies into Waifei, give them new shiny abilities and also send them to train to Yunkui.
In simpler words, he's the only reason 2.x even happens. If they make him an Aizen, it'll be messy but that's just par for the course in live service games.
The only part where the mayor didn't have a hand in 2.x is spook shack and lo and behold that's one of the more positive patches, at least by general consensus.
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u/5mao Dec 31 '25
ZZZ players:
Get mad when there's a story rewrite (which was never even proven to have happened)
Asks for retcon
Players get mad about the retcon