>>714129117The roster was not the issue even if they made questionable choices. The issue was how you obtained characters, the amount of time it took you to get even a single character, and how it was obscenely terrible for onboarding people in general. If you wanted to play singleplayer (The Rifts) you needed event skins from potentially multiple seasons ago or for $8, and if you wanted to play multiplayer well then your choices for characters were limited.
If someone joined in when Raven just came out to play her they would need to unlock every other character before finally being able to get Raven, and that was after the character unlocking system was reworked. If someone joined the prior seasons they had to buy the Battle Pass or character outright with real money and had no other way to obtain them outside of hoarding paid currency for an entire season from events to maybe unlock two characters, or one of the newest. It was even worse if you didn't pay for the BP.