Board Thread:Council of Arrowverse Wiki/@comment-27640688-20191018132855/@comment-27640688-20191018135209

Ninja72 wrote: Oh, sorry, did not know that would not really fix the issue. No big deal. But also something to consider. IF we include all of Smallville (which this is not the place to discuss this, so we don't need to state our opinions on it), but IF we do, then that's another 200 episodes added in. And so 6*200 more nodes per call and we will have already passed that 2*500 that we took off by removing the hovers. So this issue could just be exponentially getting worse for us unless we do something.

Like you've suggested, removing the hovers would fix things now. But here in a couple months (or maybe longer if Smallville is not added), we would be in the same boat we are in. I do agree that the hovers aren't a necessity, so we could get rid of them. However, they do make things prettier for those on a computer and as we can see, it still isn't going to fix things :/

Hope this helps!