I think, Flashback showed that he’s capable of playing other roles when they experimented with him a bit in stage 2.
Athan, performed like he wasn’t even a rookie, rarely if ever making a bad decision, reminds me of Karon in the way he doesn’t even look like a rookie despite being a player that hasn’t even player tier 2 val officially yet. Athan is also a duelist main, so i think they thought it would be too drastic of a change to go from duelist to scan.
Freeing has only ever played anchor roles , and possibly just as if not an every better aimer that flashback
Flashback just needs more time on the role imo. Also, we have only ever seen him on two maps so far, so a judgement this early wouldn’t be accurate. I’d say you can actually make a solid judgement when DRX plays in the asian invitational in late november