The balancing excuse is utter rubbish. They probably thought people would keep switching mains until those legacy OP items become unused and therefore obsolete. Which obviously didn't … (more)happen. Now we have players running around with a $10,000 item dominating the game. (less)
it's insane to this very day that you could get banned for an easily accessible game mechanic that's designed as intended
Because, as we all know, easily accessible game mechanics that are "designed as intended"(whatever the hell that means) are never abused by human or bot alike.(less)