. Cox made that mistake.
Cox was forced to make that mistake.
remenber That the original plan of the studio was to make a remake of Castlevania/SCIV.
with MoF he atleast recognized indirectly that he made a mistake returning a little of the MTDV game style.
i see LoS as a different game that only have the title Castlevania to gain fame or call attention and well, this had not worked as the konami supervisors was thinking.
exposing my humble opinion, i think that with LoS 2 Cox will achieve redemption to the LoS Game.but,well i can be wrong.