Yeah, I get it's the MO, but it always gets me a bit.
That's why I prefer when the MOTW is a human and gets redemption.

They wouldnt have in the showa era :lol

But thats another thing again since in the showa era they arent considered humans anymore by the Riders since they often willingly gave up their humanity to be turned into monsters through selfish reasons.

I always like it better when humans become or create the monster, ultimately get redemption, and learn from their mistakes. The W/OOO/Fourze approach... Den-O also had a bit of that element as well.

Just watch Episode 18, Chase jacked the ride crosser, makes me wonder if Mach is going to die and at some point later Chaser takes over Mach's belt when he turns good.

So am I allowed to vent an issue I have with Drive here?

No people arent allowed to voice their opinions...ever.

Jk. Go ahead :)

Please do. I will almost certainly agree with you.

Well, Producer Takahito Omori states that Kamen Rider Drive is Kamen Rider meet Knight Rider. Knight Rider have a human bad guy so that make sense to have human bad guy

Great, I feel that the mysteries in drive, are either incredibly telegraphed (Maschin Chaser, and Proto-Drive) or they don't clue in the audience at all, making it hard to solve the mystery alongside the characters, which, at least in my opinion, is what a good mystery should do, it should also allow the viewer to go back over the episode and go "ooh" when you realized something that played into the mystery, this is best exemplified with Gou and the flowers in episode 13, and the sword strikes in episode 18, hell the sword strikes would be easy to solve, just have Otta, and his mentor doing kendo when they meet.

That's not what I meant, really.