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I honestly believe that TLG killed Bionicle with the cancellation of G1. In my experience, a few years into the 2010s kids had no idea what Bionicle was, and seeing Bionicle sets they thought they were Hero Factory. Then by the time G2 came around the world and trends have changed a lot. Having lost the aspect of being an established IP Bionicle had no chance to survive anymore (but yeah, it had a lot of other problems too).
And later by killing Hero Factory they killed constraction altogether. Hero Factory was still popular enough, and fans of Hero Factory weren't interested in Bionicle G2. I have memories of both kids and their parents asking/looking for Hero Factory back in 2015-2016. I guess the higher price points didn't help either, G2 sets also looked plainer and smoother (often with awkward proportions and ugly color schemes) than most Hero Factory sets. HF still had this robot-like look with mechanical detailing and this in-your-face cool factor to it. I don't really get why they didn't use the more detailed shells and addons that were available at the time in G2.