Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38413232-20190311233813/@comment-35345096-20190416180845

The reason the show was called Ben 10 was because when he got the Omnitrix at 10, he had 10 aliens and naturally an order for the show to progress and evolve Ben needed new aliens and MOA couldn't just dump Ben's pervious set of aliens when Cannonbolt was introduce without a reason which they did with Ghostfreak. In the OV episode "Store 23" (Have to see it again), Ben 23 said the reason he called himself that is because when he got the omnitrix as the same age as Ben prime, he had 23 aliens instead of prime Ben's 10.

Nothing is stopping the reboot from having Ben use more than 10 aliens except for MOA wanting to make the name Ben 10 (and Kevin 11) literal. I'm not buying the whole "Gax broke the omnitrix" or the chamber can only hold 10 argument considering Azmuth build the thing to have better understanding of every species in the universe and it would be rather dumb for him to just cap the Omnitrix at 10 especially if the Omnitrix was still meant for Max Tennyson or himself. While introducing AF aliens to the mix is cool, MOA have to explain why the omnitrix continue to remove some of Ben's old aliens just to make room for his new ones. Realistically there shouldn't be a reason for why Ben can't hold Upgrade (before Glitch was a thing), Wildvine, Grey Matter, Overflow, Shockrock, Slapback, Rath, and Humungousaur at the same time.

They also can't continue with the whole "problem with the omntirix plotline" or "the Omnitrix needs to be rebooted" because while I can't speak for new fans, I think that plotline ran it's course with the Fulmini thing especially when the Omnitrix isn't having any internal issues like S2 or have another "Vilgax once more" moment from S1. I'm interested in S3's plot so far and when it's time for their finale I'm curious if they'll finally address why Ben's omnitrix can now only hold 10 aliens or just ignore it and throw away another alien like Cannonbolt or Diamondhead.

Sorry for the long post by the way.