Since he was a guest anyway, they should have inducted him, as voice director he brought out the best in the actors. They could also have done a posthumous induction for Scatman Crothers (Jazz).
'cause there was no ceremony. There's no point inducting real people if they can't actually award them anything or DO anything to celebrate it.
They could have given Wally Burr an award at the Golden Ticket reception, or figure something out, just seems like a waste to not induct anyone this year, I think Wally Burr's deserves it, if not this year when he's a guest then when (I know you have nothing to do with it), just feels like another opportunity they let go by due to lack of imagination.
I'm hoping the ceremony will be back next year along with the human inductees and the auto-inductees. The whole thing seemed a bit rushed this year and I don't think they had time to organize such things.
My guess is since noone was really happy paying the extra for that Hall of Fame ceremony, they decided to drop the pomp and circumstance. This year it just felt like, 'Here are the stats and...Beast Wars Megatron and Ultra Magnus. Now let's move on."