It's just what makes the treatment of modern Ben frustrating. Every time we hear an idea for what you could do with him it sounds so much more interesting than what we got. Which is just twisting the character into something that he's not be it a genocidal lunatic with the jackal or the brain addled edgelord joke that is Chasm.
It's like there's a concentrated effort to take the least interesting, least appropriate, and most boring angle to the character at every opportunity