Over the years, Days has had various evil villains......and if they can SORAS all those kids so much, they can manage to keep a villain in town to do the evil deeds. Honestly, I have no idea why Xander is not taking over the "nasty" part of Vic's operations (heck, he was into drug running, smuggling, illegal shipping, not too long ago), and then new guy Clyde. Hey, and then Ben could be at odds with him, as Chad had been with Stefano. to tell the truth, don't know why they decided to kill of Deimos & Andre.....they had a couple nasty villains right there. Andre/Kate.....what a duo it could have been - at odds with Chad & Abby, plotting, etc. (Sorry, but StefanZero is an epic fail, in MY opinion)
I am guessing Jack will be returning in the fall, as Steve leaves, probably Kristen, too, Nicole will be back, so Eric will learn the truth about her leaving town, plus he will have to give up Jen probably, Lucas will be leaving, or else just seen no more, meaning Chloe would be free, and then we have someone returning, (November???) said to be Rex Brady, but that is not confirmed. As present stories end, the new ones are being hatched.