Another negative I can think of is that there wasn’t the cute ED with Eleonora and Yumiella. However, as a positive, we did get an insert song of the original, joke OP from episode 1.

Iirc, Patrick can use both Earth and Wind. I think they showed him using earth magic to help hold the front line in an earlier episode while using wind magic to issue orders. Best boy Patrick is a man of many talents.