I'm pissed off with it as well. You can't keep rewriting history just to accommodate an actor you want to recruit.
We're just supposed to unquestioningly accept these new characters who make no sense.
They ruined the memory of Shadrach when they introduced Faith with a bullshit story that she had abandoned them when she was around previously played by different actresses and Shadrach was never a violent racist when he was in it.
Having Victoria sell the remaining vestige of the Sugden legacy to bail idiotic David out was terrible.
I wish they would get a new producer or get Kate Oates back. Or somebody who knows the flipping history of the programme and sticks to it.