Originally Posted by Zandel

The problem with event girls is that they are not worth using even when bloomed. Bloom them, lvl to 80 with 2nd affection at 100% and they are only maybe = to a current non bloomed 6* with no 2nd affection and that INCLUDES the first 3 who actually had decent stats.

In addition, their passives are worse for sure, their actives are worse for sure and their active rates are worse for sure. This is all at lvl 5 skills for the event girls and lvl 1 for the 6*.

Compared to gatcha golds a bloomed event is better then a non bloomed gatcha but not by massive amounts.

Still varies a lot by girl and depends on what you look at. Several 5/4 event girls with leveled equipment already outperform 1/1 Rainbow Girls who have access to only 1 piece of that same equipment. There's a good reason why I didn't replace Belladonna with Swimsuit Epidendrum untill I had 3 jewelry slots unlocked on Epidendrum. I had a similar thing when I wanted to replace Mirabilis with Apricot.
Then there's Southern Cross, who has a passive that is for now only also available on Gentian. There is simply no Rainbow alternative for her Activation Rate debuff yet.

I could by now replace Hypericum with a Rainbow girl, but then I'd miss out on her comedy value, so that's not going to happen either, meaning, releasing blooms for event girls is very much warranted, to allow players to keep viably using their favourite girls, rather than min/maxing. It's fun to optimize your squads, sure. But that should never invalidate using girls that people actually LIKE. Otherwise FKG will go down the same gutter WoW once did, when people were no longer allowed to take funspecs into raids because of a theoretical 0.5% loss in DPS.