As a 1.0 player, the Twelve were definitely more set up to be very much like a D&D Pantheon back then, so the revelation of them NOT being that way is definitely what personally bothered me. Aerik is a character who was created back then and his devotion to Nophica was central to his character.
Having the revelation be "Oh they're actually just transformed members of a Precursor Race who want to die now and cease to exist" soured me on it because it felt like it poisoned a HUGE part of my character and his development.
Comments
Story-wise I totally get why people like it, it just personally wasn't for me.
Plus I’m a big fan of normal people becomes gods tbh. That’s how I run them in my TTRPG world tbh.