Looking back on Q!ElQuackity, it was really hard for me to take him seriously or care about him as someone meaningful. It genuinely feels like he has such little impact on the story sometimes.
It seems clear to me why when I compare him to D!Quackity of Las Nevadas and K!Quackity of Karmaland. Both of these characters had interesting relations with other characters (especially their nemeses), had very strong clear motivations, and were plausibly threatening.
Q!ElQuackity doesn't really have that? He didn't really interact with other characters enough to form interesting relations. We never really knew what he was doing, except that it was probably against the feds. And he was almost never a realistic threat.
In the election arc, everyone discussed the idea of killing Q!ElQuackity. No one talked about if anyone could, only if anyone would, to which the answer was 'of fucking course'. His campaign was also weak, as he was completely untrustworthy, and largely unpopular. When he kidnapped Dapper, a lot of people felt that they had to suspend their disbelief a little too much as to whether Q!ElQuackity could actually do something like that. During purgatory, Q!ElQuackity was tasked with causing problems. Was there any plausible way for him to do that? How much did he really do?
It just never felt like Q!ElQuackity was capable of actually being a threat. No one trusted him with information, and he wasn't capable of doing anything without some unknown external force involved that magically led to him having done something important like kidnapping someone. Even if he did do something, we're never clear on why. So if his motivations and actions don't do much, what else is there to him?
His relations with other characters aren't that interesting either. With K!Quackity and D!Quackity, we were all waiting for the big moment of confrontation between Quackity and his nemesis, in which the choices that Quackity had made leading up to that point would all be put into question. It was interesting to see other characters bring up the dynamic Quackity had with his nemesis, and ask him whether he was making the right choices. Do I care about the feds interacting with Q!ElQuackity? I find it highly unlikely that there would be any meaningful development from that other than the backstory of what exactly the feds did to him, which wouldn't add a lot. We already know it's going to be fucked up and the feds will justify it as being for some greater good. Would the specifics of what they did matter that much?
TLDR: Q!ElQuackity was hard for me to care about because it never felt like he could plausibly do anything meaningful, I never really knew why he did the things he did, and he didn't have interesting relations with anyone except Q!Quackity. I imagine a lot of this was just due to time constraints, and if he was able to spend more time on the server, the character probably would have been way more interesting. But yeah, just my take. I imagine other people were able to read into the character way more and got a lot more out of it. Just not really for me.
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