I agree. Here in England we suffered from many stores simply never stocking the sets in the first place. In 2015 you could only ever find 4/6 protectors and LoSS on the shelves. I saw Gali in a store once, but didn’t get her as I was low on money at the time. I never saw her again. I ended up having to order Pohatu and Kopaka online and miss out on everyone else. When the skull villains came about, Basher and Slicer were completely absent.
2016 got even worse. The only sets stores ever seemed to have were Ikir, Terak and Akida. Literally nothing else. No Toa, no Umarak, nothing. It was desolate.