Like think about it logically.
What else would they hit on the banlist? Justice Hunter stuff? Come on now, you can't be that naive.
Maliss will take the hit. Even fucking Mitsurugi may get hit. Fiendsmith, Mermail, all that stuff is fair game on the chopping block because they are all 'last format' stuff. Konami never hits the current format and on the rare occasion they do it's a slap on the wrist. They're gonna butcher the previous format decks as they always do to heavily incentivize people to buy their new stuff.

It's the same cyclical formula that they've been running for many many years now.