Ok, well when you said “stopped at OBB a good few years ago” that to me means he was no longer appearing at all, meaning he was gone and removed. So thanks for the further clarification, but still disagree with your distinction. As to me they weren’t really ever not using him even if it wasn’t something “new”. They don’t always do “new” things with each character as far as I can tell. Sometimes they have repeat experiences one year to the next, at least that is my understanding.
As for your second point, I don’t see the same as you regarding that, I’m sorry. I just don’t immediately jump to “Hey they wanted to remove him but were too scared, so just kept him around anyways but didn’t do anything new with him”, just doesn’t make sense in my mind, maybe I’m naive I don’t know. But wanting to remove him doesn’t jive in my mind with his continued appearances at OBB including in M&Gs (every year actually) and parade appearances. So again let’s just agree to disagree on that too.
Either way at this point it’s all irrelevant, he is clearly still part of the Villains cast of characters for Disney and appears he will be for many years to come. So maybe now we can all move on from this.
