I regret to be the one who has to say this but it needs to be said, so here it goes.
I once found an image that can serve as a nice response and explanation at the same time to this. Imagine the lanky person with the envelope to be someone who finally gets to go on a quest.
This is why the anti-luigi gets the fans love. There are two kinds of people in this regard. Those who remember to step back every once in a while to let others shine and those who don't. Every one person decides for themselves which one they'll be. Just like anti-luigi does in the comic.
I am probably one of the few people who can make a public statement like this and give a guarantee that this is not meant or targeted at anyone in particular at all. Why would it? I have not even been here the past few years, I literally haven't even met most of the people who go on quests these days. But I have played long enough in the past to know that this sort of thing comes up every now and again. Has in the past and probably will again, in the future, just like it does now. There is a very simple solution to it and I feel the comic does a very heartwarming job at showing it.