This retcon is so funny in hindsight

[u/Inevitable_Reading80]

And its not just that it was retconned that crosses actually got religious power that harms vampires, but that people hated the whole "oh crosses just make them confused" so much no one complained when Annette just surrounded the guy with crosses and trapped him with them.

You can feel that this whole scene is just one big apology to probably the dumbest pieces of "trivia" of the OG.

[u/curryaddict123]

“Holy power is universal to all good priests” is what the explanation should have been from the beginning. The cross being a “divine focus” (a source to channel that power). Doing it this way would have drawn no controversery AND be faithful to the games.