[Autumn]

I don't really have an issue with plantfoe shield combined with cherry blossom shenanigans and what not since that needs a pretty dedicated build for it to work and works on everyone that gets hit with it.

The things I do have a problem with is everyone being able to grab Fated Foe against Chimeras for the free 10% damage permanently at the cost of a legend ink or being able to permaconfuse them by running arguably the best instrument in the game and simply hitting your songs with no downsides or further input (same thing with the Encourage portion giving +3 to all stats to them for next to no effort- both of which are huge effects which is why I don't think Jade Insect Whistle should affect players at all in general). Being able to then STACK all of these bonuses on top of each other depending on class combinations and what not when just one of these is already a huge boon becomes an even larger problem.

I totally get it, like I said most of these effects should have way lower effectiveness or even no effectiveness vs players like you said. Miller's post proves that what once didn't work now works and the implications of that are much much more than what I was expecting in my first post too.