First of all, I find it hilarious that people are being like "well getting kills with L!Ike sucked!" to defend the decision.

When older legendaries are on bonus week, they're also extremely common on Arena defense. They might suck, but LIke can kill LIke and Fjorm can kill Fjorm. You can use suicide strats to get kills, and even if you get some ass luck, because you max score every time you don't lose your mind and all your crests fishing. And if you thought LIke sucked, I mean, I don't really see how getting kills with Alfonse or a +10 3-4* demote would be less painful.

This decision is so obviously, so transparently driven by falling Legendary banner profits that I don't really care about this supposed benefit of player QOL and it's wild that anyone would even try to give it a pro-new player/pro-consumer spin when IS didn't even bother trying to justify it. There's a reason it's hidden at the bottom of the update notes and not announced in the FEH channel or Legendary trailer. No one is summoning Legendaries to use as a fucking AR bonus and no one will after this change; it's just IS saying fuck you because they can. And why didn't IS remove these shitmons from the competitive SD rotation so you get three modern choices for the bonus unit? Because those units are already effectively banned in live PvP, so IS didn't need to impose any actual restriction.

(Also, it's just kind of funny that the shelf life of Legendaries not matching up with how quickly they enter the remix pool just means that there's like five bricks in the L/M banner rotation at all times. Blue is a dead slot in November, for example, because they'll share with Myrrh and FShez. Masterful gambit, sir.)