h-e-m-o-goblin answered:

Let me preface this with saying I don’t usually like being the kind of person that only has bitter things to say. I like RWBY, and for the most part I enjoy its content, and I think that’s more important than any flaws it may have. But it’s also important with anything you love to recognize its flaws.

I’m just. really sick of CRWBY completely ignoring most of their characters. at least 90% of the merch they revealed was team RWBY. Most of the merch they already have in the store is team RWBY. Pretty much all of the questions they answered were geared towards team RWBY.

There is absolutely NOTHING on any villains introduced after volume 3. we’re coming up on volume 8 and we have NOTHING on 3/5 of the CORE VILLAINS. It’d be one thing if they could only produce so much merch, but the oversaturation of team RWBY shit makes it clear that such is not a concern of theirs. Plain and simple, they just don’t give a shit about any of the other characters. If you’re lucky, and like team JNPR or again, anyone prior to vol 4, you might get some scraps, but that’s it.

So I was very happy that they decided to answer a question mentioning Watts right at the very end of the panel! A really good question that’s been on a lot of people’s minds! Does he have a semblance?

And they said no. Which is totally fine. That alone is not the issue. The fact that they said that he thought unlocking his semblance would be a waste of time is where I take issue.

It makes absolutely zero sense for someone to go through the effort of tapping into their aura and getting basic combat training and to not even be curious what their semblance is. Considering how deeply personal and reflective of an individual a semblance is, it’s very likely that whatever it is will directly pertain to your interests! Watts’s semblance probably isn’t combat based, and that opens up the door to so many possibilities for what it could be used for, and your’re telling me he’s not even curious?

The scientist. with a bit of an inflated ego. Doesn’t have even the slightest bit of curiosity as to what his own personal superpower would be???

It’s just so obviously an answer they gave without putting even the tiniest bit of thought into, and it was literally the only content for team WTCH [who need I remind you again are the MAIN ANTAGONISTS] in the entire panel barring a shot of Cinder in the teaser. And it just felt like such a kick to the dick, to have these characters I and so many others care so much about, cast to the wayside and only given a tiny shred of attention, and when it’s given, it’s so half-assed that we would have been better off with nothing.

It would have made perfect sense to just say he hasn’t unlocked it yet. I would have been fine with that. He’s not a huge fighter, it makes sense that he hasn’t been in the right kind of life-threatening situation often associated with unlocking a semblance. But to say that he has absolutely no interest in even knowing what it is as all before deciding it isn’t worth building on is a fucking joke.