Look people, I understand where you are coming from, story over feats anyday, a story where the Author wanks the characters is terrible get a good look at the Suggsverse of many tier 1s outside of comics and VN's... literally no one gives even close to as much ***** they give as they love Dragonball, and i love that I feel a sense of pride for that... but to me at least feats are kind of part of the story, KIND OF.
In Dragonball there was always a sense of progression you can feel and look at how powerful the characters are getting day after day, from Wall level to Island level of Goku's childhood and teen years in Dragonball to going from Small Planet+ to Solar System level and surpassing FTL speeds in his adult years. It's part of the coming of age to these characters to me, and when it comes to well... gods I would expect a little more, every arc in DBZ gave a little something and yes, I know that in Vs Battles the higher the tier the harder it is get higher, but again this all drags back to Toriyama saying there will be a battle surpassing space and time... you can't tell me that you wouldn't expect at bare minimum ONE tier 2 outside of Zeno coming into play, I don't want the Dragonball formula to be all haxes and no fisticuffs, that would absolutely suck, but I want at bare minimum decent ones so if/when they step into tier 2 or god help them tier 1 that they don't get the shit beat out of them and be treated as a Method of Test for higher tier verses, look at Xenoverse 2's expert bosses, they did haxes great without messing up the formula, Dimensional BFR, Mind Control, Incorporeal attacks, possession, poison attacks, and movement debuffs, look I am not expecting CAUSALITY and CONCEPTUAL manipulation but for god sake do you want them to stay at 3-A with fisticuffs or go Tier 2 and put up a fight?