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Doctor Who has a bunch of them!
One of the big recent ones was the Timeless Child plotline. For people unfamiliar with the show, the basic premise is that the main character, the Doctor, is an alien who's species can regenerate themselves when they're about to die which saves them but they become a physically different person. This was invented back in the 60s so they could change out the lead actor, William Hartnell, when he got too old to continue in the role and it's become a core part of the show. We're now on about the 15-16th Doctor, although that number is a bit contentious too for reasons I won't go into here because that's a whole other thing.
A few years back there was a plotline where it was revealed that the Doctor isn't just a regular alien, they're something called the Timeless Child that just appeared in our universe from somewhere unknown, and was the one that gave their whole species the ability to regenerate themselves. This was widely hated, as it not only changed the Doctor from a sort of wandering hobo into a Super Special Chosen One, but it also directly showed that William Hartnell wasn't the first Doctor, there had been probably dozens of other ones before him that had just never been mentioned until now.
The internal debates that I've seen usually aren't people debating whether this was a good idea or not, they're mostly about the best way to retcon it away and never speak of it again lol.
You left out one important piece of the Timeless Child plotline: Time Lords were supposed to have a limited number of regenerations, and the writers kept having to find excuses for the Doctor to go past the limit, but the Timeless Child plotline made it so the Time Lords have the limit because they got the regeneration ability from the Doctor, while the Doctor has the ability naturally and has no limit on regenerations. Makes it much easier to keep changing actors, which was probably the point of the whole thing.