Reminds me of countless software designs that I've seen mangled beyond recognition in the implementation phase.

Putting requirements like 15K obs and EP cost defeats the purpose of a change that is meant to reduce wasted time spent on a character that you are going to delete.

Just allows people to move on to a character they want to play and invest time in. There's no reason to keep them in the dark about forms that are already decided unless you're just a masochist.

Reminds me of a character I played that spent a couple hundred hours trying to contact an IMM with prayers, shrine visits, a note and never got a response. After I deleted, I see in the PBF IMM comments that the IMM had decided I wasn't a good fit as a follower very early on and just never felt the need to let me in on the secret. There is just no reason to not do something like this and many reasons to do it. Not just for the player, but other players and the game.

I've been ranking with shifters and they hit ~L44 and get their final form. Remove all, drop all, delete;delete. Why would you want them to rank to 44 when you could have let them know at 35 or sooner? This is not an IC concept. It's a completely OOC burden for no reason. Rant off.