Yeah, massive non-purism could still be a final result. I’m not going to pretend that mandating the Inika thighs would guarantee a purist model. But given how often people cited purism as a reason for voting for an entry, it seems odd to allow the change of something that might have been a key issue for many people, regardless of why it’s allowed.
And that also ties into this:
The possibility of changing spears (and colours, for that matter) was something that was known going into the voting period, and voters were able to factor the possibility of change into their votes.
The possibility of changing thighs was not something that was known at the start of the voting process; if it was known that the thighs could be changed, the winning model might have gotten more votes from people who had been turned off by the unique thighs. Or, more importantly, it might have lost votes from the people who wanted a maximum-purism gunmetal Hagah.
Again, I wasn’t trying to literally suggest that that would ever actually happen. That was in response to the people claiming that the changes are okay just because the creator said they were; that ridiculous example shows why the creators can’t be the sole arbiters of what’s okay to change, and why TTVs involvement in the changes being allowed is still important.
I mean “aware that Pouks’s thigh armour can be seen in the entry photo”.