That's a bit more true of the manga, the anime at least has a whiff of this, but the LN kinda sorta has a story in the background that's being told through Cid's lens so all the details are a bit muddied (and the author likely has no idea what to do with them).
The way to think of it is like...
Yeah, I dropped the WN for basically the same reason, but much earlier (for the same reason).
It just made zero sense, and not just because it was poorly translated.
The fun isn't in Cid solving problems, it's in things like him accidentally making them worse in very specific ways because he lacks critical information.
This thread is half people going "YOU CAN DO IT! I HOPE THEY GET TOGETHER AND ARE HAPPY!" and the other half is just having their first hit of PTSD in 2024.