That goes on all too much. I hated that Taim turned out to be a Darkfriend, and I didn't like that we never got to see where Logain was going under the real author, as opposed to the ghostwriter who dropped Logain's arc to make room for his personal Mary Sue. If it hadn't been for Min's viewing needing fulfillment, I wonder if he would have even got as much screen time in aMoL as he did. I wanted more of a thing with good guys who were jerks and in opposition...but still good, and I also would have liked to see more obstructive characters doing so out of honest disagreements in policy, rather than pettiness or greed or whatever. One of the things I notice is that despite all the relatively sympathetic people who, at the outset of the books, occupy positions to which the protagonists will eventually rise, they are removed by third parties, allowing the good guys to keep their hands relatively clean in their ascent. Siuan, Morgase, Mattin Stepaneos, and Pedron Niall all had to get out of the way of Egwene, Elayne, Rand & Galad, and the bad guys obliged. It might have been really neat to see Elayne having to duplicate the actions of Ishara, namely deposing and locking up her mother for the greater good. Galad's ascent didn't come at the expense of a great general, who was on the short list of people actively preparing on their own for Tarmon Gaidon, but happened to be locked into a mentality and status quo that was incompatible with what needed to be done; instead, he got to cut his way through an incompetent usurper, who also happens to be a rapist. I would have liked to see Rand have to deal with at least one monarch we didn't meet while she was hitting on him. He could have decided to crown himself as king of Tear to put himself on an even footing with the liberated Mattin Stepaneos in aCoS or tPoD, as part of his hubris arc, and then give it up to Darlin after his Dragonmount apotheosis.

In short, what I am saying is that I wish there had been a little less uniformity and conviviality on the side of the Light.