User blog comment:Salubri/Death in the Bleach Universe/@comment-387500-20120605165347/@comment-44061-20120605172452

They are neither major characters nor are they good. Prime example is you reap what you sow. Thats another misconception that that they were important. Aizen didnt view them as such and thus even if we may like certain ones that doesnt make them any more expendable. That was evident from the onset, anyone that wasnt aware of that was misleading themselves. They werent all essential to the story in fact only existing for an arc by majority.