Why not do what China did in place of disabling Gangplank for the other regions?

Now I myself don't particularly care about Gangplank being disabled (I do not play him often, nor is he in my top 5 of favorite champs), but I can understand the frustration and anger of the people who are pissed about Gangplank being disabled due to the lore event.

A fair majority of those people don't give a crap about Lore whatsoever, and waking up to see one of their favorite champs (and someone who they potentially bought with Riot Points) disabled due to something that happened in a story event most likely feels like a big "Fuck You" to them from Riot.

And so far all the Riot Employee responses I have seen on the matter (when they deign to actually respond) have been nothing but jokes - joking about how it sucks Gangplank is dead, how he is disabled strictly because of lore and not a bug, etc...

That does nothing more than raise the player's ire at having their concerns dismissed so easily by the people who are supposed to take their feedback.

So I was reading up on the matter and noticed that China had a really good solution for this - instead of disabling him entirely, they instead disabled his default skin, along with every other skin except for Spooky Gangplank, which was given (or is temporarily given) for free to people who own Gangplank.

This I feel is a fair solution to the matter, as it allows people who love/like Gangplank to continue playing him (albeit forced to do so with a skin they may not like) whilst allowing Riot the "satisfaction" of tying Lore into the game itself.