Lmao, well 1) I'm not sure TBB really HAD enough plot for that to be true, and 2) The most overpowered character in TBB was Omega by virtue of being the specialest baby to ever special baby, so I don't think the writers were all that worried about having an overpowered character on the show.
But also, I'm about to put my own tinfoil hat on because I DON'T think that the writers treated Echo and Tech the same way in how they were written off and I have a personal theory about what WOULD'VE happened with Tech if the show hadn't been cancelled. I haven't talked about it on here before because, well, I dislike this show and I dislike Tech as a character, so it just hasn't seemed worth it, but I want to compare how Echo's character and narrative was treated in comparison to Tech.
So my theory is that Tech was never intended to stay dead and that he would've been that sleeper ninja assassin guy that was chasing after them in the beginning of season 3 that just kinda... disappeared after a while. I think that was going to be a whole long-running arc where they discover that it's Tech but that his memory's been wiped to turn him into this sleeper assassin and they have to figure out how to save him, but that when the show got cancelled, they had to abandon that storyline because they did not have enough time to actually complete it. But they also couldn't get rid of it entirely because they were probably a little too far into the process by the time they were told that this would be their last season. (I also think this is probably where they would've revealed Cody's fate, he would've ALSO been a sleeper assassin of some kind likely, but that's not really the point here.)
I could be wrong, and I can't remember exactly the clues I saw in the third season of TBB that led me to believe that it was Tech, but... that character just kind-of shows up as a mysterious villain and then disappears later with zero explanation. The entire narrative around the sleeper clones who've had their memories and identities erased just gets dropped entirely without any real kind of conclusion about it. And of course the easiest way to utilize a set up like that is to take the character you thought was dead and bring him back so he's alive but not... himself. And this also provides an excuse for the notoriously anti-clone main characters to actually try to DO SOMETHING to help the clones trapped as sleeper assassins (not dissimilar to how they didn't give a damn about saving any of the clones from Hemlock until they had to save Crosshair and Omega from him). The set-up is all there and all extremely obvious and textbook, and then it never went anywhere, so Tech just... stays dead.
So I am convinced that Tech's "death" was not truly him being written out of the story but a set-up for a much bigger arc that only didn't happen because the show got cancelled. Whereas Echo leaving was clearly a way to just get him out of the story since TBB were absolutely never going to get involved in a bigger clone rebellion, it just wouldn't make any fucking sense for these extremely anti-clone characters. And Echo is a character who consistently just kept getting sidelined throughout the show even when he WAS on it more regularly. You could FEEL how much the writers didn't care about him and didn't want to try to explore him or give him much of a personality because they couldn't fit him into some kind of terrible action hero archetype the same way they could all of the other characters.
If you're being EXTREMELY kind, you could maybe theorize that they were planning a spin-off with Echo and Rex that focused more on the clone rebellion storyline, but I'm not personally convinced that this was ever the intention.
And even Echo's choice to leave is just... written differently. Echo is in CONFLICT with the other characters over an issue that has never been explored for him before and is only just coming up now so that he can have an excuse to walk away. And then the aftermath of it focuses on, ironically enough, TECH. There's an entire episode focused on Omega and Tech and their respective reactions to Echo's decision to leave. It's not really about ECHO or his motives and what actually caused his conflict with the other characters, it's about Tech and how Tech is different but that doesn't make him bad and Omega is just lashing out at him because she's sad and they have to bond with each other or whatever.
Whereas Tech gets to "die a hero." His entire death scene is about how much he CARES about the other characters, about how much he's willing to sacrifice to save them and about how quickly he puts all of those pieces together and makes that decision because he's The Smart One. And then his death haunts the fucking narrative for a while as they all get to be super sad about it and those narrative are ABOUT TECH, about how the characters felt about him and how his loss impacts them.
So I don't think either Tech or Echo was just written out of the show because they felt like they'd written themselves into a corner with them and needed them gone. I think Tech was written out because they wanted to add some stakes to the show and start to seed a new narrative now that the Crosshair/Hemlock stuff was coming to an end they needed a new long-running mystery to explore. And I think Echo was written out because the writers realized that they didn't care about him and didn't want to write for him and just came up with a random motive that seemed plausible but wouldn't eliminate him entirely so they could bring him back in as a deus ex machina every so often.
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