User blog comment:Diotoir the son of nemesis/Diotoir's Controversial Corner/@comment-2A00:23C1:68C4:6C00:49E9:6EFF:B4F1:93FC-20180320213351

In my mind, other series have plenty of forgetful robots too; Series 7 is certainly not the only guilty series in this regard. Series 2, 3 and 5 all have some very unmemorable robots, such as Rampage, Rottweiler, Enzyme, Brimhur, Tut's Revenge, Mr Punch, Rohog, Bee-Capitator, Immortalis and kliptonite. Sure, Series 7 has some, but it's no more than most other series from classic Robot Wars, except perhaps Series 1 or 4.

Also, while Cassius Chrome wasn't exactly great, did it actually retract anything from anywhere? Bash, Shunt and Dead Metal weren't really doing too much by this time either in the way of damage.

I do agree on the producer meddling, and also the active weapon rule, but as far as I know the active weapon rule didn't affect that many robots, with Stinger being the only real loss.