Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
Can't have anyone competitive against Elminster and company.
I think you're right but for a different reason to what I was originally going to post.
One of the frequent complaints about FR, particularly from people who have wasted part of their life reading one of the novels featuring the likes of Elminster, is that the NPCs come across as hyper-powered superheroes. Perhaps if the supervillains are no longer around, we won't have to see the "heroes" in superhero mode either?
And maybe this is all part of a conscious decision to return Elminster to his original position as an unreliable sage rather than an archmage so arch he fornicates with his goddess.... (Oh, I forgot I had retained that memory. Out, damned spot!)