The worst part of this decision is including Ubers and LC. Not only is anti-Tera a much more popular sentiment in SV Ubers (January survey below)
, but it also, to my understanding would literally be fine. To my understanding transitive property would not apply, ie. this wouldn't effect any other tiers. Essentially, this just takes off one of the more popular positions from the arsenal of that tier's tiering. I also do not see why LC needs to be included either.
Now, I know it's a Tiering Policy thing but:
1. This doesn't even actually violate it, but an honorary Fuck Tiering Policy for the road
2. Who Cares
Results > Else. Not only is this really not an actual problem, ie. we've already solved the "precedent", this wouldn't affect OU and other tiers, but we're just removing the possibilities of potentially more enjoyable and competitive metagames for no reason other than implementing a "clean" solution. "What if little Timmy gets on the website and sees it's banned in Ubers but not OU and, god forbid, has to ask someone else a question?" type beat decision.
This feels like a bit of a precursor decision to the possibility of a reworking of transitive property perhaps for Gen 10, or maybe it's not and this is just cleanliness for the sake of cleanliness. Either way, this feels pretty short-sighted, and unlike the meme-worthy take of "this is anti-democratic" for SV OU context, this honestly quite arguable is the context of a tier like SV Ubers where anti-Tera is a viable position that, with more nurturing and time, could have eventually gotten Tera banned, unless we believe in truly static opinions at this rate, which I don't.
Now I don't really give that much of a shit since I don't even play Ubers or LC, so don't take this as me trying to be self-interested. I'm not playing these tiers either way. I just saw this and thought it was a weird (and bad) decision, and think it's a disservice to the people who will care.
As for the positive side to this. The best part of this decision is finally ripping off the band-aid and removing all possible copium for any of us who were still holding onto some of it, and removing it as part of the discourse in Suspect Tests.
I think the actual reasoning provided for the decision is pretty easy to criticize, and the road to get here was pretty criticizable, but at least it's finally over. If you're like me and cannot stand SV OU's Fake Ass, then it's time to just leave. We have plenty of good, quality metagames to play.