I don't need to see him everyweek, but right now there is so much shit going on in this manga it'd be nice to have a chapter where we get to see a little bit of what's going on with everyone. If we don't see anything else that's happening at the same time, such as the fight between Genryuusai vs Shunsui and Juushirou, which I had already completely spaced out, it's going to seem out of place when we finally do see it.

And the series is named after him, any conotation you draw from the word Bleach leads you right back to Ichigo, the basest being the color of his hair; the more extreme, the cleansing/purifying actions of the shinigami.