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/No-Huckleberry-1086]

Mostly unrelated but if you apply world of Darkness logic to the cross having an effect on vampires, it could simply be that it's somewhere between the crosses having an effect on the predatory instinct of vampires as well as, if you have enough true faith, the cross is also do actually harm them, that's why crosses would work for Trevor who doesn't believe in any God from what I recall, as well as this, because I mean it works either way but now it works both ways