I think you understood it a little wrong, I like the possibility of creators placing custom loadings, I am not against it and did not said to revert or remove that functionality…
I also know that in the future creators will be able to select custom images on creator portal for the loading, and that’s also fine (this feature was also stated on the announcement post).
My report is about it replacing the non-default loadings, as described some times on the texts above. The announcement post clearly states it would be used as default loading, and even before that change came, me and other users of the community was already talking about how it would work and how it could be implemented in a best way.
If they were going to replace all loadings (including non-default), they would not need to mention anything about “default loading”, since that would not be adding any extra information to the announcement and behavior of the functionality. And even if that were the case, it would still lead to the problem that I described about being a massive regression on the user customization and the entire loading screens cosmetic type. So in any way or another, the report is still valid for consideration on how the feature behaves.
I also know that some LTMs and events had exclusive loading CTAs on the past, but that’s a special edge case and not common daily usage of the platform. Remember that even Blitz started with the idea of being a LTM at first place, changing later due to community feedback.
And, besides the main point of recression on the cosmetic type, this is a client feature that does not affect gameplay on a map, and these things are expected to be a choice from the player and not the creator (such as other customizations as keybinds, hud visuals/scale and so on), specially with fortnite already providing this customization for 7 years already.
Forcing it enabled for everyone, or even being an option on creator side to optin/opt-out id bad, because it can lead to spammy behavior just for marketing/ad reasons, removing the choice of an existing feature from the player and so on… We know that creators have behaviors to push everything regardless of making sense or not (you can see this with other features such as auto localization, some voice chat configs and so on), it’s not fair letting the player choices in the hands of some creator morality, specially when involving advertisiment (and again, having the regression of an already existing good feature that always worked fine).
I believe that the behavior that was properly announced is already enough, specially for the current state of the platform, of it only replacing the default loading and not replacing non-default selected cosmetics in the locker.
But, nothing prevents it having better and different iterations in the future, an example can be when Creator Economy v2 releasing (creators being able to make cosmetics and granting them to players), allowing creators to conditionally give loading screen cosmetics to the players so they can properly collect and choose the images for playing a map, participating an event from a creator and so on (Also that can incentive more good/fair usage of the feature and less spammy images)