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He's such a great character! He's a badass and he's also funny. I loved the scene in which he intimidated Crowley in "A Little Slice of Kevin" (S8E7).

Is the actor tired of doing the show, do the producers think having an angel on their side would give the brothers too much of an advantage...?

Basically he ended up in Purgatory after his plan to become the new God kinda backfired and he unleashed a leviathan on the world. Now he's come back in some sort of schizophrenic situation where an angel orders him to do unspeakable acts for the good of Heaven.

Castiel is a writer's worst nightmare: Too powerful to keep around without breaking the story, and too popular to get rid of without pissing off a lot of fans.

So basically they have to keep Worfing him every time he shows up. I think they've actually tried to write him out before (his "death" in 7x02) but eventually caved in and brought him back.

They need him to be cut off from Heaven again (perhaps after finding out what they've done to him and made him do) so that he has some power but not all his old power. He was nicely balanced during that point in time.