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Oh no, I know it's a long shot, especially when they waited this long to utilize most of their harbingers, talk about different parts of the story (Lisa's retconned death disease, Bennett's connection to Natlan, what Zhongli's contract was for). I know people joked about Snez being a Harbinger boss rush for a few years now, but now that we're at the door step, it almost feels like that could end up being the case.
I've said it a few different times in a few places, but they should have just had the Harbingers be like the Akatsuki. 2 or more operating in the same area trying to achieve the goal. I'm not saying we should have had 2 extra weeklies in each region or something like that, but take Sandrone and Childe for instance. Childe's entire storyline in Fontaine could (and frankly should) have been a side quest. Nothing would really change, but this would mean that a Harbinger we haven't seen could take the stage for a bit.
Was it cool that she carved out someone's tongue and wrote an apology on the offending party? Yeah, nifty, but we don't even really see any evidence of her. She could have shown up, maybe lip service the Tsaritsa but making it clear she's only in town because she heard of a new engineer coming up with something meka related. She scoffs at the entire thing as a novelty, or a passing fad, but still wants to investigate to see if this engineer is anything more than a fraud or someone on the shoulders of giants. Let us see that psychotic genius who can't be shown up or proven wrong. Maybe she leaves a letter or a messenger to Arlecchino about how she has to abandon ('leave in your capable hands') the gnossi chase because this engineer could actually be a boon to her own work. Have Arle lament at how unreliable most of her associates are once something related to their own deisres catch their eyes and continue with the main story.
It would let us get more worldbuilding with how Fontaine handles it sciences, see the Harbingers for generally what they are, and introduce us to more characters. Similarly, it could have easily been Columbina and Capitano in Natlan, but you get the idea.