Yet it is still part of the final product, but you don't want to count it because it didn't come out the very first moment the game was released.
In that case then you have to argue that the ONLY K1 game you can discuss for the PC is the one pre-any patch made, and thus for a lot of people that means the game has always been unplayable. Of course that's nonsense since there WAS a patch, but so too is it nonsense to try and suggest that you can't "count" those crystals in any discussion on crystals in both games since they weren't included in initial release.
My game included the crystals and thus I don't know K1 any other way than with those crystals as a viable part of the game. Thus your argument is weak at best when you say that K2 had overpowered crystals (paraphrasing here, but that's the gist of what you said) and K1 didn't.