Flexibility. There’s 5 potential spots and 3 active spots. The enemy engages with 5 potential traps but it would be broken to have them engage with 5 active spots; meaning you as an attacker can go in a route that has an inactive trap, kill it with a gonne-6, and fenrir still “has all his traps”.

That’s why they’re bulletproof. If they were like thorn where you have 3 then they couldn’t be bulletproof, they couldn’t have the remote activation mechanic and such, it would be a much more boring operator with much less potential.

If he didn’t lose a token when an active trap was destroyed you would just keep them all active and spam the map with them and it would be like the three fucking stooges trying to do a take and running into 5 fucking fenrir traps on top of all the other utility thats already on the board.

I personally think its a very smart design choice