http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/american-idol-was-never-the-same-after-simon-cowell-left.html

Ratings for Idol were already slipping while Cowell was a judge, but he was arguably the person most responsible for the reality show's success. PLUS: Brian Dunkleman “tells all,” (http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/american-idol-finale-brian-dunkleman-interview-first-host-show-ending-1201748522/) and Dunkleman had the perfect comeback (http://www.eonline.com/news/754538/brian-dunkleman-s-big-american-idol-comeback-was-just-perfect).

Simon was the on who favored Ruben Studdard more than both Clay Aiken and Kimberley Locke. I'm glad Simon did not appear in the American Idol series finale by being banned.

Yes, Simon was AI.

I'm afraid yes. He's financial supremacist and learned that wrong technique from his deceased father.

Simon is trying favor on anything which financially global as part of his interest, not financially local which is not part of his desire. That's what he'd trying to do to entire FOX network by framing the entire FOX network both as a financially local network rather being equal to these other three financially global networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) by messing up AI's second half of the 2nd season.

But there's only one mistake that Simon missed, even if he still doesn't care. There's a level between financially local and financially global called financiall national which FOX is considered as one which is financially and nationally equal to ABC, CBS and NBC both currently and permanently.

This results that Simon was officially removed from AI in the middle of AI series and failed to return AI's series finale by being banned officially, TBh, IMO.