I saw a LP of FEgirls and I thought FE8 had all the cool stuff already.
Plus the world map and monsters would be good for the RWBY hack idea I had, so I jumped in and started making ideaguy plans.
By the time I realised all the western doc was for FE7 I was committed already so I just spent my time porting things to FE8 and making new hax for 8.
idk about everyone else but that’s why i used fe8 anyway