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A few reasons.
Since you're from melee, before you make any assumptions, you ought to read below.
I assume you are playing the role of messenger here, and not directly complaining about those things yourself.
The main issue is there isn't a 5th major layout, and nobody can agree on the ideal 5th starter. As well, differences go beyond the platform layout. In my personal list, I divide the stages by the 4 major layouts and choose 2 stages that fit as unique layouts (ygg and lylat personally).
I really enjoyed this write-up. Personally I'd love to see a tournament with some more liberal stages (Halberd, Delfino, Pictochat) just to test the waters a little bit. I feel like the community kind of picked a handful of stages, and then doubled down on only a small handful that were considered as safe as possible. Even stages like Unova were tossed because there's like 3 characters who struggle on it. I definitely want to see our stage list expanded to get just a little more variety, and maybe have just one semi-whacky stage in there.
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as a fellow long time, old af Smash player, I hard agree with basically your whole write up. 
I played on Prism Tower for the first time recently, and that stage is beautiful. I would LOVE for it to become legal.
I remember back in early competitive Melee days where Mute City and PokeFloats were counterpicks. I even remember back in Brawl when Delfino Plaza, Halberd and Rainbow Cruise were counterpicks.
Obviously, looking back at it now those stages were removed not long after their initial trials, but, that's the thing. At the time, they were actually given a chance, which seems to be a big factor in stage lists nowadays. Fear and misconceptions tend to have us stuck with these boring, linear stages that are all similar without making room for the variety that our characters need. The more and more I play online the more I've noticed how awful FD and BF can be as neutral stages, and it becomes more apparent when you realize, that even in Brawl days, that people often started matching by going to Smashville or Pokemon Stadium.
It's honestly baffling to me that so many of the great stages you mentioned have been ignored for so long. I've been playing Mushroom Kingdom U, Unova, Skyloft and Prism Tower online with my friend for a while now and they are very obviously consistently solid stages. As you already mentioned as well, Prism Tower kinda fits in that weird moving stage niche alongside New Donk City, Delfino, Halberd, etc, and can be occasionally campy, but is otherwise probably a fair counterpick as well.
Also, I never understood why PS2 was chosen over PS1 either. I've looked at the stage size and slight platform difference and I've always thought PS1 seemed a bit more true neutral overall.
Probably one of the biggest issues we have now is that the few sources that exist to show stage size and platform data tends to focus on the currently used stages, rather than showcasing how many stages, especially like Mushroom Kingdom U, aren't actually as big as people think they are. I never realized that the stage was actually a decent size because the data tends to be hidden.
Unfortunately, it's probably not just me that thinks this, but because this is being mentioned on SmashBoards and not Reddit, Discord, or perhaps even Twitter, this probably won't reach out as far as it should. It seems to me that SmashBoards definitely isn't as lively as it used to be.
Considering Little Mac can be camped out on any stage that isn't Final Destination (or at least can be camped out super hard on already legal stages such as Smashville and Kalos Pokémon League) I don't think that argument is valid. It's like saying that heavies are easy to camp even though that comes with the territory. Really what needs to be done on that front is a slight increase in Little Mac's full hop and a buff to his aerials so he can actually pressure would-be campers (Though not enough that you would want to use them for much else. That would defeat the purpose of the gimmick).
Agreed, I think at this point it's just a character flaw. But this is a common argument, and I don't think the needs of this very few is worth the enjoyment of the many.
"The perception of balance is more important than actual balance" -Some FPS dev who keeps being quoted.
Why do you think heavies are held back by the stage list (as a heavy main myself I'm interested).
Probably just me hearing a thing and thinking it's an absolute fact so long as it makes sense. The idea is that heavies don't do so well on large stages and most of the stages in the current meta are decently large.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with this. To be fair though, I play a heavy with two very strong projectiles. But it is weird how many viable large stages there are. I don't think it's the communities fault that there are so many legal big stages. Tbh there just really aren't that many small stages to choose from. We could amend this a little by making PS1 legal instead of 2. I dont want Wario Ware, and I'm only a little skeptical of Castle Siege. But aside from those, I can't think of many small stages even in the running.
Thinking about it, it probably just applies to Incineroar because he has trouble keeping up with everyone under normal circumstances. Especially since Bowser and Piranha Plant seem to be doing well for themselves (though I hesitate to call Piranha Plant a heavy in terms of its archetype). The other heavies seem to suffer because of frame data or because they're not actually heavy for some reason (Ridley).
Is T&C different with or without hazards?
It's very different. The platforms move a lot more and it's much more balanced.
Probably not, particularly since we've had false "its fixed now!" claims in the past. Its not a consistent problem, so realistically speaking unless a Nintendo patch note specifically says they've fixed it people aren't going to trust the stage because it could appear to be fixed but then it comes back during a match when X character uses Y move at the same time A character uses B move and it costs a player a game/set. Its overall best to move on from the idea of it being legal, it ain't going to happen unless Nintendo says something.
Let's not be too hasty now. I think it will most likely be banned because unorthodox stages tend to be banned in general but there is a little reason to consider it. I have done a bit of testing and this is what I found:
Walls are also banned because of infinite combos. I don't think this stage mitigates that possibility?
That is a good point. Are there any that do work on this stage though? Like a true infinite combo that can't be teched and leads into a guaranteed kill? I know there are a few impractical ones that work on any stage, I know some that work and rely on a vertical finisher in past games which could be mitigated by this stage's high ceiling, and I know a few that we allow in tournament via Palutena and Joker (hard to do, yes, but still infinite).
Don't listen to this man he is dumb.
whom to differing degrees struggle when taken off stage, no longer have to worry about that.sucks on a normal stage because piss poor recovery, rockcorcking and an assortment of other issues makes it darn well near impossible to get the best out of him.The wall priority effectively works the same as what it would take to KO someone off a regular stage in a similar position. Terry's throws are weak so the same thing happens even on Final Destination. You won't kill until you get well past 200%. In other words, if your attack wouldn't normally KO on a regular stage, it's not going to KO against the wall on KOF..
I thought something like that might be the case which is why I mentioned it was Terry. I haven't had much time to test things yet but I imagine it will have the same problems as any walled stage.
The only real problems it would have as a walled stage are the infinites that would spawn (and should subsequently be banned instead of the stage) and the fact that attacks can combo into others that normally wouldn't occur on a regular stage (though this, in my personal opinion, would be more interesting to see than the normal combos we do get from time to time).
