The day people stop calling what they did with White Lily and DE a retcon is the day I know peace— No just because the wider fandom wanted something that didn’t happened doesn’t mean it was a retcon the hints to this were there for a while. It wasn’t a sudden decision—
I’m not saying they did it seemlessly and perfectly tbh I think having them ever even considered the same was a flaw in writing given DE was a character written and designed at a different time than Lily and as I’ve discussed many many times it is SUPER HARD to take a pre existing character and say ‘oh they’re this totally unrelated character with differences in personality’ and cr just couldn’t make it work. Pearl is a better example of this sorta thing with her as white vs black.
It would have been as simple as having Lily follow DE or work with her for a time it would quite literally have the same affect as Lily’s hands would have still been involved in what happened.
But I am kinda over critiques of the writing that aren’t the issue. The issue isn’t they retconned the lore it’s that what they were trying to do was never done well and they likely should have gone for a different direction.