>>33933706No offense, but have you even played the game? Decks could already summon multiple monsters a turn before Pendulums, and they also often had the Graveyard to work with.
Pendulums, by their nature, and fragile and easy to disrupt. We've only had like four meta Pendulums, and only two of them were Tier 1 or 0 (Pepe and Qli.) They've had less meta relevance than Synchro, Fusion or Xyz, and many Pendulum decks exist to support other mechanics.