It might also be that they had more lead time on these to get cameos sorted away before they had to write the plots.

I wouldn't get my hopes up. They don't and most definitely won't. Best explanation is that they realised that plot point just sucked and stopped doing it.

And honestly I'd be with them on that.

That would make sense because they would have to deal with showing off all the first quarter forms, the exceptions being Drive and Ghost

Pleasantly surprised at how early the subs came out for this episode and what an episode it is. isn't it. I failed to say it the last episode but it really is great to see Shouichi and Mana again. And even Omuro as a representative of the G3 trio.

So many great things about this episode. Just watching Agito use his other forms was great to watch.

And Woz! How hilarious was he during the whole trinity form. I swear his addicted to his speeches now. And the look on Tsukiyomi's face during that moment just sold it for me.

So next will be Hibiki. I'm like the others not really too thrilled that Kiriya will be representing Hibiki since I really didn't like him during the show, but at least Todoroki is there. I wonder why they didn't get Ibuki's actor for this too since he just did Ryusoulger? Would have been nice to see Hibiki, Ibuki and Todoroki together.

I thought they already explained it? It’s because the Another Riders are now being created in the present as opposed to the past.

Of all the cool tribute things I was expecting (and the show has really been raising its bar on that lately), I never thought we'd get the return of Believe Yourself. That was such a big part of the original series, though, and it was so fantastic to hear it again. I only wish I hadn't already read that it was coming, because I would have completely flipped my shit if it had been a surprise.

The older ones only permanently lost their memories when the ridearmour was summoned, and because of the new special ridewatches it's no longer nessecary to use those.

A. It's mostly because of the creation of a Another Rider in the year the Kamen Rider debuted. E.g. Another OOO is created in 2010, the year OOO debuts, meaning OOO's history and powers were erased.

B. It's shown that if a Another Rider is not created in the debut year of the Kamen Rider they're based off, it doesn't remove their history and powers. E.g. Another Blade was made in 2019 instead of 2004, meaning Blade and Chalice kept their history and powers before Another Blade took the latter and it was "purified" into the Blade and Chalice Ridewatches.

C. The activation and proper use of a Legend Rider's Ridewatch also takes their history and powers. Since Sougo hasn't used (except for Faiz & Kuuga) the majority of the Phase 1 Heisei Era Kamen Rider's Ridewatches, their history hasn't been changed. Although I assume this only happens if A happens since Sougo uses the Ryuki Ridewatch in the Decade Ridewatch but Shinji is implied to have at least kept his memories even after its "activation".

FYI, the official reason Riders are keeping their memories and powers now, according to Shirakura's Twitter, is that "Time Paradoxes from the early use of Zio II, plus Geiz Revive's existence, screwed the timeline so much that they can't strip it from history because it's already messed up beyond belief."

I prefer everyone else's here, to be honest.

Has Sougo used Kuuga armor in canon thought? Heisei Generations Forever is considered non-canon, right?

When did Sougo uses Ryuki ridewatch? In the Rider Time Ryuki?

Will there ever be episodes where Sougo return the powers to Kamen Rider's proper owner, to give us a total Heisei Kamen Riders Finale against Ohma Zi-O? Let's just wait and see.