Also the series being generally considered as much less visually exciting than other 3D FGs, its reputation as being hard even though Tekken is way less accessible, and 3D FGs overall being less popular among the “hardcore.”
Most of the games that have been mentioned at least have bottom tiers that aren’t anywhere near the level of absolute rubbish like KoF98/MvC2 bottom tier.
Also lol@ the AH1 being more balanced than AH3 comment. Maybe you didn’t notice that even with the 100% ToDs Elsa still wasn’t dominant, or that a Konoha player was part of the team that won SBO with second place being Zenia and Angelia iirc. Due to the basic system the only really outstanding balance issues were specific matchups like Scharl v Kira. Also as much as I love the game. MBCC still has its fair share of shit/extremely mediocre moons and characters, along with a top/high tier that’s still pretty blatantly stronger than the rest in terms of neutral, pressure and oki.