Toadette will probably be found in Bowser's Fury and become an unlockable character, mostly as a callback to Toadette wanting to explore the world in Odyssey's aftergame. since she was added to New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, she could be seen as a way to add longevity to the game. she also has a cat suit color in Mario Maker 2, which is a deeper shade of Peach's pink, but otherwise the same style as Toad's blue-colored cat suit, they may as well make use of the graphics they made for the game, if she-by proxy appeared earlier in the New Super Mario Bros style.
a wideball could be that Toadette is from doing all of Captain Toad's levels (sans Bowser's Fury), and instead the next playable character is Daisy. may as well give a use to her Smash Bros variant amiibo. it's also a little strange they gave focus to Super Mario Land in the 35th anniversary video, but nothing like Land 2. has to be some minor merit in that game's powerball powerup is in Mario Maker 2 to boot!
- Toadette appears as an NPC in Bowser's fury after it's been beaten once, but there are no new player characters and only Mario is playable in that campaign.
And if we get into the new side-mode itself, Lake Lapcat feels, and even looks like it could have been rebranded from "Catnip Kingdom" or something along the lines. For starters, the idea to include an Odyssey-style side mode when themain campaign uses Galaxy-styled levels is a baffling one. A new free camera is present, while the "Grid-like movement" is gone, not to mention those "new" moves were likely made with Bowser's Fury in mind (Though they thankfully let us use them in the main campaign). Not only does cat shine collecting have similar-feeling tasks for your average moon (There are general moons, shard-like moons, and even multiple moons out in the open, designed to give you some quick moons while waiting for something). Not only that, but earning a moon uses the same animation, and it doesnt send you back to the cat-shaped gate, it lets you continue off from what you were doing, like Odyssey. Also, like Odyssey, if you die in Bowser's Fury, you don't lose lives, you instead drop ten coins.
It is also unknown why this DLC kingdom in particular could have been scrapped in the first place, or if it was tweaked here and there to incorporate powerups, and even the ink-cloaked lad himself.