User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-1416490-20150628224742/@comment-4742462-20150629003900

But at least he was fodder who they got rid of right away, while someone more annoying like Max managed to somehow make it all the way to 5th for no real reason.

He's pretty much the same character in the first episode that he was in his two episodes of Pahkitew Island. In other words, Leonard still continues to suck.

They began developing The Ridoncolus Race almost as soon as Pahkitew Island was finished and before it aired so they had no clue of how badly he would be received.

I've been told that each episode takes only two weeks to animate once all the ground works been laid out. So Leonard still being in this despite them likely being aware of his reception by now comes across as laziness because they would've had more than enough time to change things and replace him with another character (especially since he's likely to be fodder again).