>at high level play... that's a mark of a rubbish game
>meanwhile, Super SFIV (which I don't think is too superlative
>compared to some others) ...has some tourneys where surprises
>regularly happen.

Out of nowhere I found myself watching the tourney streams last year and very little of that had to do with Wong or Daigo, lol. When Gamerbee, Vangief and others came out of the woodwork with characters that were considered shitty and started taking kids lunch money, that was great fucking television.

Watching a Diago Ryu vs Rufus Wong is great played and executed, but ultimately boring.

If they care about the 'scene' so much, they should welcome some of these changes especially considering at a high tourney level execution didn't matter(since they could all do those combos in their sleep) but mindgames and smarts.