You might be on to something Eris replaced her light with Hive Magic, then added Stasis to her abilities , and she is now just has capable in a fight has she was with the Light, some would say alot more capable And they can't make us lose our light because the forums would burn with "Where's ma subclass bungo", so they have to represent that loss in NPCs , and if you lose something you feel is part of your identity , you will walk through hell to get it back I actually think it would be cooler, if some reason when we fled earth, we were severed from the light , and we all had to become cloudstriders and learn Strand to fight Calus and The Witness , it would actually feel like a new game, with the story synegising with the gameplay , but no, we will learn strand to "Add another tool to your arsenal" , when we should have to learn Strand because we have nothing else anymore Speaking of Tinfoil hats , I think the witness is a 4th wall break representing the players, that's why at the ending of SK they looked just like us, and when it speaks you can hear different voices speaking, and we see countless life and death everyday on this game, and after almost 9 years we have had enough death, and enough life, and just want the cycle to end