I'm kinda bummed that Chad doesn't scale high and stopped being relevant later in the series
Because his whole design is honestly amazing. like, not just visually, but also his fight style as a melee only fighter in a world everyone fights with swords, his abilities from his two arms.
Ichigo's human friends all got their moments: Orihime was the center of a plot point in the Aizen arc with Aizen saying her ability is a God's and not like anything else (even if nothing much came out of it at the end) and she was captured and had a whole storyline with Ulq; while Uryu despite being sidelined for almost the entire series, made a legendary comeback in TYBW becoming more powerful than most shinigamis and Yhwach's favorite. Poor Chad didn't get anything. Fullbringer arc should've been Chad's time to shine but he was pretty much reduced to the sideline after being used as a plot point to connect to the Xcution.