It's not like it was the first time. They did the same with Lujack. That was also a major blunder. Lujack wasn't just a legacy character, he was connected to a major core family. It was almost inevitable that they were going to resort to the "lost twin" gambit.
In Ben's case, anyone who didn't watch in 1985/86 wasn't going to remember his parents. His stepdad, Fletcher, was an odd duck; a long-running character with no ties to a core family.
I agree killing him off was lazy, With young actors who catch on fast, soaps should always have an exit plan if they decide not to sign again when their first contract ends. In Bomer's case he wasn't ever coming back. But so what if the character left town and never came back? He had one major link in the show, that's all. So having him leave town should have been the way to go. There were many long-time viewers for whom watching him die on screen was very disturbing. (I literally yelled at the screen, "I remember when he was a baby!" while he died).
They compounded the error by making the whole thing so distasteful. At least Lujack got to exit a hero.
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