Originally Posted by
Niwashi
It's not being dramatic. It's being honest. That music is the Rising. Without it, the event shouldn't exist. The event is plenty "changed up" by the fact that it has completely different content each year. What makes these events with different content qualify as being the same event is their one unifying element, that theme music. A theme which this year is missing, so yes, that's broken.
(And all that's completely apart from the fact that it's also the most beautiful music in the entire game. It's bad enough that it's only available once a year, but if we can't even get it that once, the game has lost its best element.)