If anything, you made this worse. The reasonable people were already fine(now they’re just kinda annoyed) and the unreasonable Max fans are now gonna love Max even more and dismiss the “haters”.
SF5 “still is” or “might have been” a failure to anyone outside of competitive gaming. But then again those people never really had a place in the genre TBH. Fighting games is serious business. You want single player mode get an RPG. Or continue to ignore all the wonderful single player experiences because your feelings are hurt that you cant enjoy SFV release as a casual gamer falling into the hype.