Zigūr, this sentence of yours summed up my main dislike of Jackson's
Hobbit adaptations: '
Bilbo's personal character arc falls seriously by the wayside because this film broadens its focus'.
The Hobbit was supposed to be Tolkien's 'edition' of Bilbo's memoirs, which as memoirs do revolved around himself, the 'author'. What Jackson and others did was to turn it into something completely different...