Galactic Legends pointless requirements

I agree - requiring rose et all and not using them boils down to the same thing and needing them for an easy early tier and then never using them BUT CG invites the criticism by not bothering to put them in a battle. Instead of 3 tiers played multiple times for shards we could have had more tiers with those others gatekeeper characters mixed in. I don’t see that as being difficult for them on the design side. It feels like a conscious choice NOT to do it.
I am also disappointed that ships didn’t get at least a nominal battle. I feel like they were part of an earlier plan but were removed around the time that the required units were lowered...I guess they felt like the ships were needed for the raddus so there was no need to require them again. It was another blow to ships though- the Rodney Dangerfield of swgoh.