>>724528416
It's an unfinished loose end that still had moving parts in the final game, which raised a lot of questions, even DK64 has traces of the mechanic before Tooie yeeted them entirely. Before vidya and internet had enough traction to datamine everything to fuck and back, all we had was an incomplete picture. These days, you don't get a lot of things in vidya becoming unaccounted for, pic related that it led to a new nickname for one of the devs.

Suppose the 360 re-released allowed for a compromise, at least.