@Dr_Osaka
It wasn’t because of the fan-votes, nor poll, Sakurai said Nintendo themselves asked to add Minecraft to SSBU.
@Kiryu-Chan
In fairness, Blythe at least uses other weapons, including a bow, and ax, trademark FE weapons that haven’t been used until now. So they aren’t even strictly a “sworder.” (And people were fine with DW “Hero” using a sword.)
Saying Blythe only uses a sword would be like saying Steve only uses a sword.
Also, I don’t get why lately SSB fans are so biased against sword-users, yet never complain about SSB also having many gunners, (Fox, Falco, Wolf, Samus, Dark Samus, Bayonetta, Joker, ect.) or bare-handed human fighters, (Ken, Ryu, Terry, Captain Falcon) fire-users, (Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Kirby, Charizard, Inceneroar, Captain Falcon, Roy, ect.) magic-users, (Peach, Zelda, Robin, Hero) and such.
So when you think about it, it’s not just “sword users” that are overdone, and would they be happier if
all sworders, including Link were gone?
In fact, ironically, Ganondorf was given a sword for his Smash attacks, because fans for years complained about him not using a sword.