Unfortunately, I feel like with the size of the cast these days, it's really hard for mhy to actually give older characters the attention that they deserve, which does make a lot of sense but it also why they haven't been able to focus on Xiao as much. Like with Lantern Rite this year, they were trying to focus on Gaaming, Xianyun, Ganyu, and Shenhe because they were shiny and new or had new outfits, so some of the characters like Xiao were kinda relegated to a cameo. (And then they brought in the Fontainians for the epilogue for some reason?? I still can't stand that choice to this day tbh). That's why the poetry gala was so delightful to me, because it focused on a lot of characters that don't get a lot of spotlight most of the time (Diona, Chongyun, Noelle, Mika, etc.), and I just wish that mhy would do events like that more often when we just get to hang out with characters from past regions.

Sometimes I kinda feel like they put too much Fontaine in Version 4 even though it's the Fontaine version, we barely even saw Sumeru outside of Cyno Part II and the Inazuma event was painfully short, plot-wise. All of which is a long-winded way to say that I do wish we could see Xiao interacting with other characters more often, but I feel like the size of the cast is also to blame. We still get scraps though, I'm gonna hold the moment of him and Chongyun interacting close to my heart for a long time, I've been hoping to see them interact for literal years and it was more than I ever could have hoped for <3