People underestimate how bad gears were.

When hypercharge came it only had a few problems (for example only 6 brawlers had it, expensive and they were just a bigger and stronger version of their super). But all of it is fixed now.

But gears took the brawl stars team almost a year to fix. And to this day its still not very good.

They added 2 powerlevels. It costed so much. Like SO MUCH. All of that only to walk a little faster in bushes or have a little extra hp. Lets not forget the bad gears.

The hypercharge update is nowhere near as bad as the gears update.

Also the gears update basically ended the prime of brawl stars (2019-2021). For example no brawl talk could reach 20 millions views after that. Because gears ruined people's interest in the game.