Damn, straight still with the pessimism. Sometimes I feel like I'm one of ten people in the world who can get my hopes up and not act like my world is melting when it doesn't work out. Even the latest Spider-Man movie has a message against this world view, like damn folks.
I find this hilarious because it's just another case of lies being told. Even if we get no more spirit events after this, saying everything was done was a lie, and somehow I can't help but laugh that people fall for the lies of Smash all the time...even tiny ones that don't mean much like this.
I think my friend group even joked about them still doing spirits even after they said they were done as a 'gotcha moment', but as it turns out we were right.
What lie?
That Spirit Events were "ending"? Because if so, that's not even remotely what Sakurai said in the first place, but everyone, as the Smash community does, took what he said out of context and ran with it.
If you look at any article pushing the narrative that Spirit events were "done", they'll all point to this tweet in particular:
And if you actually read it, nowhere does it say that new Spirit Events are done, just that going forward, they'll repeat the prior events; notice that there's zero mention of new events being impossible. It's sites that report on every little thing that Sakurai says that said the events were 'done', and all because Sakurai said that old events would start being re-ran.
So no, there's no "lies of Smash" here, because the only lie here is news sites taking a Tweet completely out of context. New spirit events were always on the table, Sakurai never said they were finished. Step down from your soapbox, put away your "I WAS RIGHT" spiel, because you're having an "AHA!" moment over something that never was even said in the first place, something even you didn't fact check.
tl;dr
The narrative of "Spirit Events are done" isn't from Sakurai or any Nintendo source, it's entirely from news sites taking this tweet and taking it out of context. The only lie is what the news sites said, NOT Sakurai/Nintendo.