The more I use Beast the more I can understand why they held back with him
I think they were definitely scared of a TEQ Vegetto situation because this guy's damage is LUDICROUS. I have him at 79% with DEF equips, so I understand people who say his DEF is underwhelming, but for me he's never died, and easily lives and sometimes double digit tanks the hard supers.
I think if this guy got ONE more mechanic, he'd have been top 3 bare minimum, like giving him guaranteed crits would've let you use a dodge build on him which makes him even safer, or making his support for movie heroes for example, or making him a slot 1 character, or letting him stack. Just ONE of these would have made this guy so ludicrous. Did he deserve one of these? Yeah, if I had to choose, I'd pick changing the Piccolo support to movie/super heroes, because it'd be the most interesting one.