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Birth By Sleep should have been treated as the origin story of Apprentice Xehanort. Instead, it was used to retcon Master Xehanort into the Big Bad of the entire saga.
Why should his body matter, you ask? For one, bringing back MX's old body retroactively weakens the impact of Terra's story. Now Terra is just one vessel among many, and not even the main one.
Another thing is that Ansem SoD and Xemnas were the Heartless and Nobody of AX, not MX. Without AX to act as a link between them they don't feel like the two halves of Xehanort.
It also feels like MX worked as the villain of BbS, but for the finale of the saga it would have been more appropriate to have the "complete" version of all the previous Xehanorts we fought.
Why should his body matter, you ask? For one, bringing back MX's old body retroactively weakens the impact of Terra's story. Now Terra is just one vessel among many, and not even the main one.
Another thing is that Ansem SoD and Xemnas were the Heartless and Nobody of AX, not MX. Without AX to act as a link between them they don't feel like the two halves of Xehanort.
It also feels like MX worked as the villain of BbS, but for the finale of the saga it would have been more appropriate to have the "complete" version of all the previous Xehanorts we fought.