Delzethin
Character Concept Creator
Might I remind you that FE Warriors' roster, aside from Lyn and Celica apparently, was decided on before Choose Your Legends ever happened? These decisions had to have been made a good year and a half ago, at the latest. I could see them using CYL to narrow down their DLC choices, but they were flying blind for the base roster aside from a couple dated popularity polls Famitsu ran for Awakening and Fates.No what it sounds like is another reason to shill out a new game when there's no reason to make another FEW. All you need to do is add the most popular characters from the series as DLC and there's no reason to make another game. That's what Hyrule Warriors did. It's just another reason to pump out even more FE.
Even more egregious is the fact that the aforementioned characters were the ones that placed the highest in the popularity poll and were not only left out in the base game but also left out as DLC. Zero reason to defend these people. Honestly.
And even despite the missteps with the base roster, we do know they were concerned over there being too many sword lords. It likely stemmed from that, then went to "Crap, we can't fit them in anywhere. Maybe if a sequel happens?"
What is it about the internet that leads people to assume any disappointing news or choices must have been done out of spite?