Americans banned him much more for how overused he was rather than for how good as a character he was. If we ban a character that's not even overused in our continent just for the argument that he's theoretically broken, we'll look even dumber than the URC.
They're trying to cater to the scrubs/n00bs. They want to make the game more "accessible" to n00bs/scrubs (in order to generate larger pots), which means they have to ban things simply because the majority wants it so and because the majority think it's "boring" to play against.
Which is the stupidest reason for a ban, ever.
There's a reason why he hasn't been banned until now: No one has ever been able to prove that he should be banned because he is "too good". In fact, they
still can't. I pray that Europe won't fall for the scrubby mentality that has gripped the U.S. scene. "It's not fun to play against!". Oh, really? Then stop playing the game, you scrub.
C+P job from the official MK Ban thread:
Banning something because the game is "More fun" without it and because "The majority want it so" is stupid. The majority once condoned slavery. It doesn't mean that slavery has ever been right.
"More fun" is a stupid criteria to base how one writes a
Competitive ruleset on. What's next? Chaingrabs and infinites are "boring" and the game is more "fun" without them, so let's ban them? The game is more "fun" without tripping, so let's hack it out? The game is more "fun" with more stages allowed, so let's just hack the banned stages to remove the elements which cause them to be banned? Heck, Snake is boring as Hell to play against. Let's ban him too!
The majority isn't always right and "fun" should never,
ever be a criteria around which one shapes a
Competitive ruleset.
"There are too many Meta-Knights" and "Too many Meta-Knights win tournament" is such a stupid argument. Ban him if he's broken, if he actually
prevents other characters from even coming close to doing well simply by his nature, not because people
choose to main him at the expense of worse characters. A quick look at most Competitive tournament communities will reveal a centralization of characters among most games because most games have a Top or S-tier around which tier*****s can flock.
I have always and will always view this ban as wrong (unless Meta-Knight is proven to simply be broken).