I’ll be honest, people have been discussing a sr ban since gen 4 and the topic of banning spikes comes up from time to time. I’m not saying that would ever happen or that I would agree if it did, but I think the reality is hazards themselves are more broken than people like to admit and dhengo is kind of a scapegoat for that. In ADV there was no defog, so all ghosts were hard counters to hazard removal, no court change, mold breaker, no work-around whatsoever. And you’d see the same scenario nowadays where gar gets sacked just to prevent spikes being removed, even if it gets pursuit trapped after because keeping spikes + chip/status on tar can be considered a fair trade. This really isn’t much different than sending your dhengo in on tusk to get knocked and then trying to rk for example.
I don’t really get the fear of dhengo right now specifically however when we just got so much dangerous shit that checks it? With darkrai, volc, glisc, and moon all being Uber-worthy threats that check dhengo and just dropped. Like to me the pre and post-dlc disparity is massive, dhengo does not feel as good/threatening as it was last week.