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>I heard the Thunderbolt artist developed hand issues
That actually happened.

>Maybe changing the protags, or promoting them to commanding positions would have revitalized it.
Or, as I have been saying constantly, that Ohtagaki had grown a pair and killed Io, rather than keeping that boring balance of forces.

>it could be why Thunderbolt stopped getting new designs
Not an excuse, really. Ohtagaki has Sakura Mizuki working on his studio, and she did some really neat stuff like the Bull-G. That final arc was "nostalgia for the sake of it".