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Joanne Rowling is an absolute garbage human being, but I separate that from JK Rowling the writer. She was inexperienced when she created the sport. Quidditch was never meant to be something people actually played - it was for sensational heroism, nothing more. I don't think she spent long designing it. But she felt locked into the ruleset she'd created in Philosopher's Stone,and, as she evolved as a writer and the books became more young adult, Quidditch became largely irrelevant. I think she also ran out of ideas for it, similar to how Pokemon battles get redundant.

That said, them wanting to separate themselves from her by simply changing the name of their version of the sport isn't enough. They should ditch the broomsticks, too. And this is coming from someone who hasn't given a shit about Harry Potter in a decade, in large part because of its creator's constant attention-seeking and... the worse stuff.