It still just felt pretty daft to be framing melee weapon skill training in the middle of a war as a college seminar, also that your young character is apparently so gifted at everything that they are teaching all the older professor characters about their core skillset too. It made sense for a young adult mercenary to be teaching teenagers about fantasy warfare in part 1, less so when that same young character is now instructing senior church knights about swordplay while also teaching veteran wizards about magic and the faction leaders about the one martial sphere those characters excel in.
Admittedly, this is part of what I really dislike about the ego-stroking of player avatars, that they sideline FE characters by being brilliant at everything, and the whole school setup doubles down by having you as literally an expert teacher in everything, which is way beyond just being a strategist/advisor. I disliked the implication of Byleth being better than Edelgard with an axe and able to teach the clerics at healing, and able to teach the dragons at how to be better dragons, and better than, say, Petra at being a Pegasus knight. It just felt ludicrous in terms of how knowledgeable Byleth was for some random young merc who turned up one day. Sticking with the same hub setup and calendar for part 2 just fell apart for me at that point too, when the monastery is also pretty empty, it’s obvious it’s set up for the first half when you’re developing all the students and it’s busy and exciting. But they really could have changed it up for the second half by having a change of hub that’s a bit smaller, more streamlined and tailored to each force.
As much as I prefer the designs of TH, this is one element of TH I’m happy they seem to be leaving behind, but also why I like the way that some series like FE change things up between entries, it’s creative and I can’t really fault them for that.