Creatures are way more sturdy than tokens and a lot of them scale with counters or just getting bigger
It might miss Force of Will but it is super hard, even impossible, to Force of Will something after being Inquisitioned
If a replacement effect modifies the number of counters that a permanent enters the battlefield with, that effect is applied after you have chosen the number of lore counters that the Saga will enter with
Its even more restrictive than something like Infect, which at least interacts well with mechanics such as Proliferate
In general, players don't like downside mechanics unless they're especially flavorful, and echo is about as unflavorful as it gets
Escalate appears on a few modal spells in the set, giving a player the option to make the spell more powerful, but also more expensive