If even one of you gets a post removed during one of these bit struggle sessions you failed the bit and should feel immense shame. Doing a bit successfully is Praxis.
Find things to struggle about that doesn’t get out of hand. It’s important to let off some steam now and again but do it in a way that doesn’t harm your fellow comrades or add work to the mod team.
I’ll start: Some beans are better than other beans. Like kidney beans are bad nasty icky beans but black beans are actually amazing.
To me X and X-2 are a pair. The former is one of my favorite games, but you are on rails the whole time. At least with X-2 goofing off in the world is the point. Mechanically X-2’s Job system delivers on the flexibility that X’s sphere grid only promised. Existentially it was a fun way to explore After The End of a favorite game, or what does the protagonist do after they saved the world.
I also see part of X-2's "weirdness" as a coping mechanism for Yuna's loss in the first game, and the rest of everybody trying their best to distract or support her as she works through that.
I also deliberately ignore the “secret” ending in X-2 because that’s like Reviving Aerith levels of heresy.