Were we though?
Another reference adding to Tabu’s:
Going to play devil’s advocate for a minute here. I can’t find a solid promise anywhere and I don’t think it was ever made. Comments were made to indicate that cosmetic pets would not be required (like the ones above), but there was no promise that would never change, I think we just interpreted it as such. And those comments should be taken in the context of the time they were made, literally years ago when the game was in a different state, when the most you needed to max out kingdom power was 2 pets at level 20, which you could in fact do with one regular pet and one faction pet.
Do I think requiring cosmetic pets for kingdom power is fine? No. But I don’t think the developers should be prevented from further developing the game in the direction they feel is best for it because of a comment made years ago.
Anyway, devs gonna dev, what can ya do about it? 