We knew getting into the Knights Dragoon was hard, but we didn't know it was supposed to be this exclusive until literally yesterday for the most part. It was in "reasonable for a character who was born in the right place + had the right political motivation + worked hard & exclusively at it for long enough" territory.
I think simplifying it down to "people who RP'd dragoons just wanted to do something cool and special, like high-ranking military officers!" is pretty rude. Given, again. We didn't know it was supposed to be so elite there were only 30 of them until yesterday. We already know there's a limited number of Garlean officers with their own castrum; there was literally no way to extrapolate this information about dragoons until it was given to us, so I think faulting people for acting under a different assumption is expecting people to live up to impossible standards.
I think simplifying it down to "people who RP'd dragoons just wanted to do something cool and special, like high-ranking military officers!" is pretty rude. Given, again. We didn't know it was supposed to be so elite there were only 30 of them until yesterday. We already know there's a limited number of Garlean officers with their own castrum; there was literally no way to extrapolate this information about dragoons until it was given to us, so I think faulting people for acting under a different assumption is expecting people to live up to impossible standards.