I often think a lot of the reason we have a meta where campy characters are incredibly strong is the community's tendency to legalize giant stages (Kalos and Hollow Bastion) while not even considering the small stages like Wario Ware and Castle Siege.

The thing competitive smash players fear the most: slants

I genuinely think a hazards on stage list would be more fun and interesting to play on. If we're sticking to the traditional rules for stage legality, then we actually gain more stages than we lose if we switch to hazards on.

Never forget that the Ultimate scene banned a stage solely because Palutena players didn’t want to learn how to recover.

As awesome as PM is, the P+ leadership team can't make up their minds about what the tourney legal stages should be. Ironically, as you mention, they have the potential to perfect the stagelist, but it turns out modding is a double edged sword, where the team feels they have to make virtually unlimited iterative changes.

I appreciate the Rick roll at the end.

Considering how massive is the stage list in Ultimate, it's a travesty everyone just plays pokemon stadium 2. Biggest offender is nobody ever picking Omega stages either.

I was watching this for a good couple minutes before realizing you weren't some YouTuber with a couple dozen thousand subs lol

This is great! Can't wait to see more if you decide to continue making things like this.

I’ve always personally vouched for Hazards off Spring Stadium, as the boost panels on the side do telegraph where the ceiling panels are, making their off-screen position less bothersome to deal with. It’s certainly the least offensive ‘obstacle’ for a stage in comp smash imo, at least considering PS1 and Yoshi’s exist…

Kind of a banger vid tbh

Its so interesting of a topic cause theres so much to consider.