>>9611005Probably because by 2008, the natural flow of narrative was succinct until the aspect of Teridax last minute made that conquest feel like a cop-out.
The Makuta (for the most part with exceptions of a few like Krika, Icarax, or even Mutran) didn't stand out and felt like a rehash of 2006 villain narrative where as the Piraka characters overcrowded with little development into being less enigmatic to as opposed to being archetypes.