With the continued excitement around the new splashy art and valuable reprints that become Special Guests in new releases, WotC is likely to continue the practice
It is on the expensive side, sure, but it turns your commander creatures into giant (pun intended) threats that can end the game in a matter of turns if you can get a few swings in
Cloudblazer lacks the versatility of evoke, but I find both work in the same shells as powerful card advantage engines that require only a little effort to enable
Take the subreddit r/freemagic for example, where members wail against PC culture and social justice warriors, and brag about being banned from other Magic subreddits
Second, casting the spell from exile uses all the same timing rules the spell normally has
What absolutely kills me is that often there is a logical creature type for an artifact creature but it's not a golem or a myr and it goes creature-typeless