And you are a prime example of someone who is complaining merely for the sake of complaining by self-imposing illogical and incorrect expectations to consequently trash them and blame FT and Hiro for it. With other words it's your own fault and yours alone, so instead of acting like child that goes "lmao rofl rekt" all the time, grow up and take responsibility for your own screw-ups. The 12 Spriggans are strong, but not invincible. They are the villains, so they were bound to be beaten and there are 12 of them, so Hiro is really not going to dwell long on every single one of them. Most of this supposed hype also came from Makarov and it has been shown he has been miscalculating the growth in strength of many of his guild members. You also seem to be completely oblivious to the strength several characters obtained during the course of the series. And as said a battle is not just a straightforward clash of shear power, so yeah all the 12 Spriggans belong into the same category, but that doesn't mean that they are all the same. A lot of things depend on how they fight individually and against whom. Laxus already showed in Alvares he could take on Azir, he beat Jura and was even considered for the position of Wizard Saints, but due to his attitude denied. Add then the fact that they are fighting tag-team matches with the most powerful members of other guilds and you have more or less even matches. It seems you haven't noticed it yet, but almost all the Spriggans so far have fought alone. Nothing went out the window outside your objectivity and integrity as the methods Hiro is using to take them out are by far some of the most logical and reasonable ones he used during the course of the entire series. Normally they just get beaten to a pulp, now they are being outwitted by blocking their strong points and exploiting their weak ones.
Brandish was never beaten in combat, the way she was taken prisoner was a bit of a comedy sketch, but in reality that can even be considered to be not that bad as it shows that she's still just a person with her own faults like having allergies. An example again of your own mistakes as you're implying all villains have to be immortal, unbeatable gods apparently. Dimaria was using an extremely OP magic, so in reality you should be complaining about that, not Ultear as that magic had to be countered somehow and Jacob was completely outwitted. This is as genuine as it can possibly be. His power lies in the type of magic he uses, his spatial magic however was negated by Lucy's cleverness. No gimmicks, no plotarmor as you people like to call it, a simple and efficient strategy. Jacob uses stealth to fight, meaning despite being well-versed in hand-to-hand combat, his overall power output will be limited as that goes against the concept of fighting stealthy. Natsu and Makarov are the complete opposite of it and they used that to their advantage the moment Jacob's magic was undone. This is strategy class 1.1, but still you whine. And almost no character ever goes spamming their attacks around the clock, you don't even know the limits of his magic, it's very well possible he needs to recharge for a few minutes before he can use it as he just transported over a hundred people in a radius of a large building.
What you are doing is whining, then Hiro does the opposite of what you whined about and then you whine again by saying something different. That's the definition of being a hypocrite. If you would actually follow the logic someone like you is applying, the main characters of every series would die instantly and that sounds really great to read, huh.
