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Why does a captured promoted pawn in crazyhouse turn back into a pawn?

ie: lets say an opponent promotes a pawn into a queen, and i capture that promoted queen, it gets added to my reserve as a pawn not a queen. why is that?
Ideas:
1. Total material balance should not change.
2. Promotion should be an advantage.
3. Similar games and variants (Shogi, Bughouse) have similar rules.

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