User blog comment:Supermorff/Angry Joe interview for YJ: Legacy/@comment-432124-20120618030701/@comment-432124-20120620044814

Again, you guys are missing the point. This is supposed to be a show about teenagers, not young adults. The fact that they're no longer as young as before means that they likely will have little more potential on this show. We've already seen the roles of Kid Flash, Artemis, Aqualad, Zatanna, and Rocket get reduced to that of recurring supporting characters. Imagine what will happen to their roles, as well as those of Nightwing, Miss Martian, and possibly even Superboy after the time-skip between Seasons 2 and 3. If it's like the time-skip that we've just had, the biological age range of these characters will be, at the youngest, 19-26, not young enough to keep their roles as main characters for that much longer.

And not only that, but the creators told us that we would get to see these characters go through regular teenage issues, like school and other stuff, as well as fighting. But we didn't get to see much of that in Season 1 and now that they've passed through high-school and most of them are college-age, we likely won't get to see much of that for them in Season 2, much less in Season 3.

So in other words, what the creators did was limit the amount of stories that they can tell for these characters on this show. And unless they move on and start focusing on younger characters in later seasons, they've limited the amount of stories that they can tell for this show in general.