If you pay attention when he's doing the tests, there's a zoom-in to the boulder getting close to him and slowing down during Amathyst's test and one of the blades during Pearl's test makes the "phasing through" noise when Steven "narrowly dodges" it. He would have failed them if they were legit.
It destroys every other timeline, and by extension, everything that came from those timelines, Ben or not. Ben was just the primary thing he was getting rid of.
For the record, the barcode was proven fake weeks ago. Verifying it is as easy as producing a copy of the barcode and asking a Target employee to do an inventory scan on it.
To make a long story short, it lets shows like Transformers run without falling under the legal definition of a toy commercial. As to why 30 minute toy commercials are illegal, blame Regan.
I assume that the major hackjob of the first episode was a one-time thing, because the original version didn't have a proper introduction episode (they assumed kids were already familiar with the character). The dub kind of had to get creative to introduce the character to an american audience...
He's actually a fairly minor villain from Transformers: Animated who was based loosely on a human character from the comics. He had a striking vehicle mode, distinguishable robot mode, interesting motivation, and his first toy was often hailed as among the best of the Transformers Animated...
Given that he was hospitalized within a day of the incident happening, the decision that he was unfit to work was probably cemented regardless of social media backlash. That only difference is that it likely wouldn't have been publicly announced so quickly.
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