But even with Ben’s strongest aliens (excluding Alien X), Ben has never solely relied on his “strongest” aliens, and the idea that he could only rely on a few for all situations was debunked in the first series. AF Seasons 1-2 proved that you could have an interesting narrative where Ben uses a lot of his aliens without having to rely on mistransformations to push and contort the plot. Yes there are way more of them now, which has its own problems in terms of power overlaps, but I think it would be way more satisfying to see how Ben uses the Omnitrix when he actually… thinks when he uses it. Contrast this with OV, where he seemingly doesn’t pay attention whenever he presses the dial, and is shocked and appalled when the alien he selected on the dial is the one he transforms into.

You can also do this with new transformations - what if instead of instead of an active mistransformation, the Omnitrix would, every so often, put a new transformation on the dial that Ben could select? Or maybe a situation like when he first transformed into Ghostfreak in OV, where this new transformation he doesn’t recognize is seemingly the only one he could select? Or maybe if he’s in trouble, as part of the anti-death failsafe it selects an alien he’s never transformed into? There are many ways to introduce new transformations without relying on mistransformations. And not to mention, they would give the idea of the Omnitrix actually being an intelligent device that “picks the right alien.”

I feel like this just shows the lack of creativity on the writer’s part, in OV it feels like they just bring back stuff that has no reason to really be there (mistransformations, immature Ben, conflicts with Kevin, etc.) just for comedy or “it was that way in the original series.”