So they're lazy. Got it.
sometimes the better decisions for business are the easy ones. spending thousands or millions of dollars on new characters is risky when you have the opportunity to do something like this.
still, i don't see why this has to be a bad thing for the comic. it doesn't necessarily mean the writing or actual substance is going to be any worse now, they're just putting a different individual in the same place. i can get people being skeptical if it feels like it's being shoehorned in, but i don't see why this has to ruin anything