After four years, I decided to watch Doctor Who again for the Christmas special just to see the regeneration at the end letting the whole “breaking the 12 regeneration limit rule” slide and giving it a chance to see if the show had gotten better seeing the First Doctor would be in it and had considered watching Peter Capaldi’s run as the Doctor now that it was over.
It only reaffirmed my belief that Stephen Moffat had ruined the show and that a majority of it, including Jodie Whittaker’s casting (I’m sincerely not trying to come off as misogynist), was done by the BBC for their own selfish agenda’s.
Well, you could probably try even harder. It’s not an unreasonable casting decision.
Anyway, they dealt with the regeneration limit last time. They decided to count Tennant’s fakeout regeneration. The suspected reason for that is that Moffat did not plan on staying through all of Capaldi’s run. His creation of the War Doctor would therefore throw his successor into needing to deal with the limit very early in their tenure. Potentially unfair to them and only because Moffat invented an incarnation. So he got it out of the way.