Clone Characters in SmashBros

So there are an obnoxious amount of clone characters in this game and I felt like ranting about it. There are tons of characters that have so few changes that they could have just been separate skins instead of entirely different characters. So the first and most obnoxious one is Marth and Lucina. They are literally the same character with the same stats, frame data, moves, and practically everything else. There is only one difference and that is the sweet spot sizes and locations on their sword. This was unnecessary and made me rather mad. Lucina is actually objectively worse than Marth and just a copy of him. The next one, Sakuri's favorite, is Pit and Dark Pit. Pit was introduced in Brawl and then in this game he mare a return, and brought with him dark pit, a character with the same stats, skins, damage, and all but 2 of the moves are the same. The main difference is the side special and neutral special. Both are the same except dark pits is slower and stronger. Besides that, the characters are practically interchangable. Another one of the clones we see is between Mario and Dr Mario, where the only thing that is different is they made Dr Mario far worse than mario in smash 4. They have pretty much the same moves, just different speeds and percents. Another one of the clones that we see is only in melee, but with Pichu and Pikachu, where again the added character is just worse than the original character.

So, this rant was pretty much just to point out that every clone of a character is just worse than the original character, and was a waste of dev time.