Why does April have powers despite Ciro claims it's tricky?

[neatoman]

So Ciro considers it tricky to write female characters with powers, as he claims they just get too much of a power creep, citing problems with writing Raven and Starfire on Teen Titans (Teen Titans had far bigger problems they should have been worried about but whatever). So as result he wanted April's powers and ninja training to not get out of hand.

I'm not necessarily against April being a psychic ninja, but why would he put that in the show if he thought it would cause problems? Even if the idea don't come from him it come from his crew, as far as I know April was never depicted with any powers before the show, so it just seems counterintuitive introduce an element they didn't believe they could handle.

What happened here? Did Ciro want to set the bar high? Did someone force him to do it? Does he simply have a priorities issue?