Welcome to the Anime Walk of Fame, a series of retrospectives on the many characters of the anime world. You'll see all your favorites along with a few that deserve more than their reputations give.

So sit back relax and enjoy the show.

Chad Deserves Better

Not sure if it's poor character writing or just bad story telling but Chad is about as useless as Orihime.

I don't hate Chad or Orihime, I like that Ichigo surrounds himself with good friends and Chad brings alot to the table in terms of having a strong personality particularly in the face of constant bullying, I just wish Tite Kubo would give him a win.
There was also a case of dub actor Jamieson Price not coming back to voice Chad due to some pretentious bull shit about not wanting to take on non white roles but is totally fine dubbing Japanese characters, kinda dug your own grave there mate, we live in a world where an 86 year old woman can voice Goku and characters like Samurai Jack, Donald Duck and Sonic the Hedgehog have or had black actors, only the voice matters, not the person behind it.
Just to get to the point, you could take away Chad's voice and he'd contribute exactly the same to the Bleach story as a mute, in fact making him mute gives more weight to his body language which in some cases works better in story telling.

Never Give Great Power to Orihime

A lesson in why not to give the best powers to the most technically redundant characters.

From the start Orihime is 100% autistic; she's ridiculously book smart but has strange fascinations and hobbies, this makes her quite an endearing character and I kinda understand why she lacks agency and appears somewhat helpless in a number of situations, speaking from experience, Autism doesn't give you much in the way of social skills or being able to read situations very well, so I'm not as harsh on her as say Leena Toros or Fuko Kirisawa.
But unfortunately despite having a power that if used correctly could easily have made the series more streamlined, Orihime is probably the worst choice for it.
Shun Shun Rikka has the power to reject phenomena by denying or undoing events in various forms, this power can be used for attack, defense, or healing, it's effectiveness is tied to Orihime's emotions, getting stronger through determination and weakening through doubt.
Going over what I just said about Orihime, she's the worst choice for an ability that relies on emotions to control it's power output, this inevitable made her a damsel in distress when she could've quite easily avoided it.