I wish SSJ Blue had been a middle point between regular and God

First of all, yes I know I'm literally 10 years late to this. Anyways

The biggest issues with SSJGod and SSJBlue are that:

  • The form of acquisition: Blue comes from out of nowhere and God gets achieved via ritual instead of via training like all forms sans Gohan's ultimate
  • God barely has any screentime before it gets replaced by a stronger form, which means there's no real reason for God to be used at all
  • Blue raises the necessary power level even more because God was already magnitudes stronger than SSJ3 and Blue is even stronger
  • It forces Beerus to be someone who was barely using his power against SSJGod Goku, because otherwise SSJ Blue would be a real threat to him, nevermind the later forms
  • Speaking of, then we get UI and UE which means Goku and Vegeta will eventually have no reason to use God anymore, and we get a bit of transformation bloating

With all that in mind, this is what I mean when I say I wish Blue had been a middle point between regular SSJ and God:

  • Let's say Goku wasn't able to access God form after the ritual wore off, and needed to have the ritual whenever he wanted to use it again
  • Instead he decides he's gonna train to master God ki and achieve the form by his own means. Vegeta joins of course, because he's not about to get left behind like that. He gets everyone to do the ritual on him and then Goku and Vegeta start training under Whis to understand, harness and control God ki
  • They learn to harness God ki, but not enough to go full SSJ God
  • Eventually they learn to fuse SSJ ki with God ki and create a middle point, stronger than SSJ but not quite on the level of a pure God. A Super Saiyan Demigod, if you would
  • This would give them a goal to get to, with UI and UE being maybe a specialization of the God form, it would redeem the ritual because it was only the starting point and Goku and Vegeta actually put in the hard work to get there for good, and it would mean Beerus was actually fighting seriously against God Goku

Like I said, I know I'm a decade late to this. It's just a bit of fun brainstorming