But like, I'm not understanding your point? Are you trying to argue likelihood? Because we really don't know how likely he is. Are you trying to argue deservatude? Because I thought we all agreed that that was a kind of dumb thing to argue because it's basically unquantifiable.
Here's the thing. Sakurai asked us what we wanted. If a character is well known to be liked to the degree that characters like Geno and Banjo are, and you have guaranteed sales to a sizeable market like that, then why not change your mind once you finally have some more room to play around with who you add?
You yourself said you like the character so what is even the point of this unflinching monolith?
I've already said why I don't think Spirit upgrades are likely whatsoever, and I've asked for reasons why it would be likely. I haven't gotten any arguments besides "Sakurai could..." statements, which aren't arguments. It's a hypothetical, which isn't evidence. Meanwhile, I've suggested why it seems to not be likely, but I'm met with, "But Sakurai could...", each time.
I said nothing of being deserving, so I'm not quite sure where that came from. My point to your comment was, "If Sakurai
knew that Geno was popular for nearly a decade, and made the decision (despite that known popularity) to
still keep him non-playable, why would that same popularity suddenly,
despite the prior knowledge of his popularity, cause Sakurai to suddenly make Geno playable?"
Instead, he made him the #1 class of Spirit over nearly 1000 others. That's my point. Despite the popularity, and the chance to make him playable as DLC, Sakurai still didn't.
Why would he do it now if the popularity of the character resulted in a Mii Costume previously and a Spirit now?