I think his rewrites sucks in my opinion, Sonic is a GAME franchise first and foremost, so his Generations rewrite was very anticlimactic and Erazor Djinn became the villain out of NOWHERE

We need to bring back the werehog form

He's back...

HES BAAAAAAAAAAACK

I think gimmicks are like money in a lot of ways. The more the same ones are used, the less value it gets. The point of gimmicks are that they are rare and used only once or twice.