But that's the point. We don't NEED the story of Chi right now. While it may tie into KH3, it could very well have been saved for after KH3.
KHUX works great as filler, but that's just what it is. Filler. I can imagine if it had been saved for after KH3 (if we pretend they intended for Chi to be important when they first started it), the story would have been much more condensed and they wouldn't have to try so hard to make it relevant to Xehanort or KH3.
KH3 is the end of the Xehanort saga. Instead of including story stuff from Chi, they could have easily starting bringing up more questions about the war and why Xehanort seemed so obsessed with it instead, leaving off that mystery for post-KH3.
I say this because that's basically where we are now. We're learning the history of the Keyblade war and there will be answers we probably won't even get until after KH3. If Nomura sticks to his word, the MoM won't even appear in KH3 and will most likely continue to be an enigma. That kinda bothers me.
If a movie like Backcover had been saved for after KH3, it possibly could have been longer, more detailed, and a proper prelude to the next conflict of Kingdom Hearts after Xehanort. Instead, we are still left questioning how the heck all of this can possibly fit in KH3 and what possible bullcrap excuse they'll use to make it all Xehanort's fault.
It could have been a clean slice between the Xehanort Saga and the Chi saga, but all we have is a muddy pool of uncertainty.
I'm inclined to agree with this viewpoint actually.
While Chi's story is certainly intriguing, so far it does nothing but add more mystery and additional baggage to an ongoing saga that
already has quite some baggage to address even without it.
X Back Cover is like a giant teaser for Unchained/Union X with the only things relevant to the present being No Name Keyblade and that stupid box, the latter of which the audience gets to hear and see for the first time (never ever was there any mention of a weird box in KH 1, 2, BBS, Days, Coded or even DDD), so it is something thrown in with absolutely no foreshadowing and which has no actual relationship with Xehanort or any of our present day hero characters.
Relevant to Xehanort? Err wut? Last time I checked there isn't anything in Chi yet that points to any relevance with Xehanort or even the present-day era
story-wise.
The only true
connections to the present era so far are the No Name Keyblade, Maleficent and Ventus, and aside from some glorified cameos introducing them and having the audience go WTF are they doing in the past they've done
nothing with these characters and also nothing with that Keyblade apart from having Luxu showing it off in some cameo scenes.
Yea, indeed, that's what Chi's story
should be doing to actually justify its supposed connection with KH III, but maybe this is the dilemma with it: Some if not the majority of the answers are supposed to be big boom answers in KH III so they have to be left out of Chi, yet this creates also content problems because there are other big boom answers fans and the audience expect to get from the build up of the
other games in the series.
Or in short, Chi does what a certain portion of the KH fandom has always rightfully criticized and possibly even condemned, and that is opening new cans of worms while not even properly exploring those already opened beforehand.
It adds an unneccessary new layer of complexity and "connections" that may serve to only further complicate the whole package instead of improving it.
Not to mention it again adds to the already rather big pool of original characters who the series in itself has already problems paying satisfying attention to in terms of characterisation and story arcs (Riku being the only exception).
The history of the Keyblade War is certainly an interesting story in itself for sure, but in all honesty what I am more interested in concerning KH III is the story of our present characters around Sora, Riku, Kairi, Terra, Aqua, Ventus and the main Disney crew who are in the conflict with Xehanort, to which the Keyblade War and Xehanort's obsession with it serves as a
background information and motivation. Y'know, the story built up starting with KH 1 going over CoM, KH 2, BBS and then coming together in DDD.
To have the past and the actual Keyblade War intrude into the present day story just adds superfluous extra complexities and is likely just to satiate Nomura's unhealthy fixation on making things "surprising" resulting in "shocking" twists of a twist among three more twists which eventually makes you facepalm.
Well, I mean, it's too soon to say though since III isn't out and Ux is still going.
However, the two seem to dovetail quite nicely, since they both deal with a Keyblade War, we also know that it'll likely have ramifications on III since Xehanort/Luxu's Keyblade has been made a focal point in the last trailer, Eraqus and Xehanort were talking about the foretellers and we know that someone in III is looking for the Master's box. Pretty sure that last bit especially couldn't have been foreshadowed AFTER the game where it makes its big appearance.
Now, could it have been handled differently? Sure, but that doesn't mean that it'd have been better or worse. Even if you were to alter it into something you're 100% satisfied with, someone with different taste will find something they'd rather have changed, just like most of the series. Actually like literally every series, but that's where the fun of fan fiction comes in.
Granted, I have to admit that Ux is still running, but it is honestly doing so at a snail's pace using way too much filler material.
Not to mention that Ux itself leaves so many things unexplained that it can become annoying for parts of the audience, it is opening more questions than giving answers, something that isn't really needed among all the open questions the series already has from previous setups made.
Like we got only glimpses of the start and the early stages of the Keyblade War in Browser-Chi, the Aftermath in this blatant teaser scene in 0.2 and the very personal end for the player avatar, but nothing on the later stages, the actual
end of the war or anything about the fate of the Foretellers.
We still got close to
nothing about the supposed traitor-business, who the supposed real Seekers of Darkness and puppet masters behind the whole thing are, what Nightmare Chirithys actual agenda is or how exactly the nature of the whole Unchained Realm is.
Considering the importance the other games of the series put on the X-blade, the complete absence of it from the Chi-side of things even on the Foreteller's "side" is striking, with the only mention of it being in a Nomura-interview yet again where he states that the Master of Masters "knows" of the X-blade and uses it as a model to create Keyblades.
Heaping all that on KH III to solve alongside the setup already made by the other games does sound like overkill and I can understand when people become concerned about it.