This really started byke when Brawl dropped. And it didn't even make sense then
Melee was an autistic fukking fever dream of technical skill and STILL sold millions upon millions. What does hoe ass nintendo do? completely neuter all gaps of execution.
No other game has had such a drastic dropoff of babying when it wasn't necessary. The casuals will buy the game regardless. DBFZ could have played like Hokuto no Ken and it still would have sold 5 million so I have 0 idea why these devs are so fascinated with dumbing shyt down. Motions are FUN they are rewarding. If you can't put in the effort to learn how to do a fukking fb motion then just mash with your friends and be done with it. I was doing that shyt when I was 3 so I fail to believe capable adults are unable to learn how to do inputs.
And devs have taking most of the spastic fukking inputs away to boot

its all fb, dp, motions. ez as shyt.