the most beautiful thing you can be is very loudly passionate about stupid things and not give a shit

I feel like these are the same sort of people who clamor to have live-action remakes of animated movies made.

Now that I've watched it all again, I can say confidently that the main message of the Star Wars Holiday Special is:

"Let grandpa goon to VR in the middle of the living room, he doesn't have much time left"

Brian, I am very sorry that the things you used to make fun of the the worst people in the world came true in dumbest ways possible.

Okay, but this sounds like would slap regardless.

“Only to find that the mid-season twist is they’ve been remote-piloting real suits in a real territorial combat that’s threatening to come home to roost, and the pilots they eliminated from the leaderboards may have been actually eliminated, and oh fuck me im just writing Ender’s Game yuri”

An unfortunate feeling that I can regrettably relate to. Hopefully you find what works for you to address them.
Regardless of which thing you choose to spend your time on in the immediate future, I have faith that it will be good and worthwhile, as all the rest of your work I've seen has been. :)

What are those plugins even good for then? (Honest question, seems like something weird to have only in your local instance.)

This took the form of the Tremaldi Bros. forming a negative bond with the wind drake brood as a whole, which the player chose Inferiority which I felt led to good emotional bet in the moment and, hopefully, will led to some more emotional moments as the group continues to interact with the drakes.

Topically, we just got to experience this last night in our Fabula Ultima game. When the Tremaldi Brothers were defeated by a wind drake, I felt it was going to leave an emotional mark on the Brothers and then invited the player to describe what that meant to them.

My beloved Thursday night blorbos!