welll at least this will end all those "will lost world be printed?" debates. tbh, it was kinda silly to think it wouldn't have been printed after it was revealed we would be getting the rest of the lost link cards.
anyway, this is beyond a disappointment for me, even as a collector. reprinting cards that were just released not even two sets ago is stupid, especially when they appeal to almost no one. i guess the shiny legendaries are interesting for me as a collector, but a 117 card set with 40ish rares is not. (especially when most of them are uninteresting reprints from just the last year of releases!) unless the shiny legendaries are about as common as the arceus cards were in platinum arceus, i will be skipping this set almost entirely.
imho, they should have just released triumphant in december, (with all the lost link cards) and then gone straight to be black and white in april. (and then BW2 in august) if they absolutely had to, i suppose they could have released the shiny legendaries in tins, blisters, etc instead of this sorry excuse of a set.