>konami made pends as some sort of super archetype that support everything and planned that decks would have at least one pend card to support, even if wasn't making them a pend deck; see lunalight, but only 2 pend decks ever made any sort of impact, 3 if you count tgc bitching about majespecter.
>whole thing still is completely unfocused and dripfed rather than going along like other summons, later they obviously gave up and shoved ton of generics, lot of pend effects are run of mill summon cannot be negated or atk boost, also multiscale got ignored even if card design support.
>links come and pends were nearly unaffected, mostly as leftover, then MR4 get fixed but pends still are the only summon type tied to it
>common playerbase reaction is simply don't bother, citing complexity, doing "too much" or simply being sloppa, konami don't help by not explaining what the fuck it does properly.

Honestly it's quite bizarre scenario, sure they can make broken shit but is just banlist bait rather than fixing problems.