But that is how I feel about it
Okay, keep in mind Zacho that I am not a RWBY hater. In fact, I love the show, I wouldn't write fanfiction for it if I didn't, that being said, RWBY has it's problems...
In any case I will comment on your points to counter them.
They don't use their Aura monitors on every fight because they have to pull out their phone ( a scroll) in order to see it. so that is why there us that.
The problem with this is that all combat in RWBY is based around Aura and Semblances, the latter of which needs the former to work, which means without it you are helpless. Knowing how much aura you have is thus extremely important for your long term survival against both humans and Grimm.
The world of RWBY literally has self driving cars, energy weapons, Androids, holographic tables and scrolls, but somehow Atlas hasn't been able to cram something small enough to literally fit into a cell phone into something else that's easily and constantly viewable for ease of hunters? like say a wrist watch?
Oh we know how strong Maidens are when fully trained. That is why we never got a good idea because of no Maiden before vol 7 being fully trained. We see just how strong and powerful Cinder is as a very new Maiden in Vol 3 against Pyrrha, we see how strong two newer maidens are, with the better trained one winning out. We then see just how powerful a full maiden is...EVEN when injured old and dying. Was making Cinder work hard for it. We then see what one of the strongest non Maiden characters can do when given maiden powers, and still being very new to them, was able to combine the new powers with her normal ones and give an amazing fight.
I take full responsibility for this mistake as I phrased my writing in a weird way from what you quoted.
What I mean and what I am getting at is more a question of "What are Semblances limits?" and "What makes a Maidens power greater?"
Think about it Zacho, we have
never been told the true limits of what semblance's can do. For an example we know that Yang has a semblances that allows her to ramp up in power, the only limit being she can't do that indefinitely because her Aura still takes damage from the blows...But if she did for whatever the reason had an indefinite amount of aura would she still continue to ramp or are semblances limited to an extent beyond that, and if so how?
We see Pyrrha use almost all her strength to move the gears when fighting Cinder and yet Glynda casually throws a cafeteria together and despite that in the finale of Volume 3 we see her semblance struggling and why is that? She still has Aura obviouslly so what measure do we use to tell when a semblance becomes exausted?
We have a way to tell how much Aura is left from a viewer perspective. The cues of when the aura flares and then breaks.
We know but that doesn't really matter as by that point you are dead as an aura user.
Why does knowing how much one has left make much of a difference as it is less likely to show the trope of, someone how pulling more out of ones ass?
Because it helps you power scale and get a gleam of what the heroes are facing. Every non-maiden in the series bar Ozpin, The Gods, as well as Salem could fight Cinder and Raven, yet the power scaling is so vague at times that figuring out if this overwhelming amount of people with aura, weapons and semblances can actually just beat two people is overwhelmingly impossible.
Well, the thing with Pyrrhas death was less going to be a remember this kinda thing, and was going to be a major focus on the JNR for a short while till they got Vol 7. Ruby still has it hurting her badly, but is using her to give her a reason to keep going. jaune had his moment that still gets me to tears in Vol 4. Both eary episode and late episode. Then we see how JNR feels in Vol 7, and why they make up for it, and how. What they plan to do, to honor her.
I honestly think that would not have been the best, mainly because the weight and death were still heavy on Jaune and Ruby, and Jaune needed a talk from the red head, aka Pyrrhas Mom, to help him realize how he would honor her in a better way, as did his whole team.
Keep in mind, I am not saying that what we got was bad I am just stating they waited too long to address the issue. (Two volumes)
It got to the point that up until they reached Argus I thought that Ren and Nora had just plain forgotten about her. (Blake and Yang still have) And while I understand they had their own arc going for them, honestly, Pyrrha in memory should have been more connected in that plotline, at least briefly, as ever since Ren and Nora found each other JNPR was the closest thing to a family they allegedly had, and that should have connected to their fear of facing their old home.