To be clear, the blonde isn't Roll but Claudia, a character from a 2017 april fools event in Nintendo Badge Arcade. I appreciate the patronage regardless!
Eh, it's a complete overreaction for sure. These folks are getting older, and they're less interested in working on the same things after decades at the company. Their departures don't mean "oh, those series are now dead". They'll have someone...
Really unexpected, but maybe not so because there's been a bunch of senior but not so senior departures recently (Tanabe, Hideki Kono, etc). Wonder what's next.
A few years ago, I bought those WarioWare keychains/phone straps. The Wario one was my favorite, but none of them were sturdy. It ended up falling off and is now lost forever.
Perhaps there's more of an effort to be informal and concrete on wikis out of respect for the source. On the surface it makes sense to come up with a name in another language by building off of the original, but not every creator would want it to...