User blog comment:Neetaku/A Rewrite of Attack on Titan/@comment-1327106-20180212050412

I pretty much agree with you, Neet. (But I think I usually agree with you when it comes to body counts. :P) Isayama was so busy killing people in Trost that he didn't leave enough reserves who could be dead bodies later, and then after he'd made that impression, he had trouble killing what spare bodies he had left (Sasha).

So now it's fairly routine that new characters are introduced and get killed while the main cast remains, instead of having older cast members die and getting replaced by the new characters. (Given this, I'm a little curious about Floch's changes at longevity should there be another arc past Marley.)