It seems a sequel of a Digimon season is a bad option from we're seeing from Tri. Insert a character like Meiko, focus on a side character and weakening the plot is a sequel I wouldn't want to see of Digimon. They're destroying the fun of watching Digimon and its story.
I hope they change this route at some point. Just let side characters be depicted as main characters before showing a season and everything would be fine.
Yeah, but they might depict Ryo and Rika moments along with Takato and Jeri like they're doing now in Tri's latest part with Tai and Meiko.
If Meiko was created just to be with Tai, It amazes me how badly written is "their story". We had several times playing with TaixSoraxYamato and now we need to remember that Meiko is the ultimate OTP? Just like Yamato and Sora, whose ship was so lacking. They keep repeting the same mistake all over again and that's kinda sad.