I strongly believe that MS could have given season 3 of KI a bigger budget but it seems that they simply don’t care about KI despite having 6 million players, tournaments and all this supprot we’re giving. But they just keep giving that “excuse” that shadow lords was very expensive to make and that’s why S3 is lacking stages and a bonus character. Don’t get me wrong, SL is great, it’s very fun and I am enjoying it, but I just think that more money should have gone into season 3.
Rash, Mira, General Raam and Eyedol (maybe even Gargos, as the astral plane is too much of a simple stage, unless they add more detail to it and an actual event that happens in the background during an ultra like the rest of the stages) could have had their own stages. And we could have also had a bonus character - pre-transformation cinder, human sabrewulf, human spinal, rushdown glacius, shadow orchid - so many ideas yet we got none.
Anyhow, I hope that we do get more stages in a future patch down the road someday.