Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-24593235-20171007225142/@comment-25926288-20171009122354

But you also have to look from a marketing perspective too.

What's always getting a new version and still maintain popularity: Cinderella. It's well-known and easy to market. Even though the demo was pretty much steady, the Other Shoe had the most views of any episode in season 6.

Then there are the mechanics and what the writers are going for. You can see what they are getting at with the whole "new EF" and the new stories.

After all, this season is part reboot. If we just continued with the new fairytale character of the season, it would be the same as the previous few seasons and wouldn't really be a reboot in anyway. This is how it was also likely discussed with ABC.