Keep in mind that NRS is only available to go to such lenghts to their production values (although, i would say that their stories despite the fluf are all terrible) is because they have WB Games deep pockets at their disposition.
You cant really expect every game to be able to follow.
And outside Tekken and SFV and SNK offerings, i feel that most games due a great job with their loading times and the other stuff you mentioned.
Also, while is nice for those who like that, at the end imo what nrs spends on their story modes is money that imo is better put into other stuff that matters.
The story mode is something that at best you only touch twice.
And with the advent of youtube and streams, most people just watch another person play it.
Plus at least for me, their other content has become less and less appealing after they became NRS, the early 3d era had better stuff, like the mortal chess, mortal kart, etc.
Right now, they only offer glorified arcade modes with silly modifiers and the krypt, which as for MK11 is just ugh.
And while lets say MK11 offers a lot of customizations, all of them are behind one of the most convulted and obnoxious ways of unlocking it and customize your characters.
As soon as i saw that Tournament mode allowed me to rotate the outfits even if i have not unlocked it, i decided to not even bother 
Inj2 had the better customization, even if was marred by the lootbox system it was behind.
MK11 is just some few costumes repeated many times with different colors, which you have to unlock separatedly since they are counted as different outfits.
You cant combine different parts of the costumes like in INJ2, and you have to attach the outfit to a movelist loadout, instead of being able to select it from a list independently from the variation you want to use.
If anything, i feel that outside graphics and bombastic story mode, NRS games have become kind of worse.
And this comes from someone who actually likes MK11 as imo, is their best fg in terms of gameplay so far.