Since the status quo that it's built on its indefensibly, irredeemably terrible, why should I - the reader who's being asked to pay money for this dreck - feel like I'm obligated to forgive any of its badness at all? The premise on which it's founded is unforgivable, and everything that's followed has been mediocre at best. When you fuck with a character that badly, it is YOUR burden, as the creator of the character's stories, to JUSTIFY those changes. It is NOT my job, as the reader, to try and find some pretext for forgiving you.