Yeah I think we're all better off that Gambit was left out here. They just couldn't pull the trigger on Gambit. They kept wanting to put him in then they kept shrinking his role until it was a small cameo and then deciding to cut it when they realized it was pointless to put him in. They just didn't want to rock the Wolverine boat. But it doesn't matter anyway because then they shoehorned him in Origins and it was poorly done. That killed all the momentum Gambit had for fans that wanted to see him in a movie.