>>29101484>since fairies were introducedIt wasn't before that?
There's still yet to be a Fairy-type move as good as Ice Beam or a Fairy-type move with priority Ice Shard so Fairies haven't really done anything from the offensive side of things to overshadow the Ice type moves.
And the Ice typing on a Pokemon was just as worthless as it is now. It was never scary to a Dragon type.
Nobody is afraid of Vanilluxe, I can switch anything in on that shit, be it a Steel type, a Fire type, a Rock type, a Water type, anything.
So it's not like Fairy made Ice any worse of a typing to have either.