Even if everyone does die when they get hit once, though I don’t know any combo anyone that I play can do besides maybe dormammu with full charges that will kill a character for 1 meter (I play Wesker, Thor Dormammu) The hard part and what I think the focus of the game should be is getting that one hit solid hit that will kill or put you in a position where there death is certain.
Im not saying this game doesn’t have some scrub friendly stuff. Plenty of supers are really hard to punish unless you are specific characters, and plenty of ways to chip people are really safe. But its still not entirely mindless in my opinion (which of course take with a grain of salt Ive probably played for much less total time then anyone here)
Here are some things I think are pretty cool in this game
Wesker combos into df+h mixups (ie jump throw which is really fun and nets you a new combo, or wave dash under super for cross up bounce off the walls super which is really humerous, or wave dash under call assist (dark hole!) c teleport for plenty of direction switch shenanigans)
Wesker + Dark hole shennanigans - especially j.df+h + dark hole either straight down teleport into low, or cross up teleport into overhead or if they are catching on and switch blocking that correctly, do the backwards teleport just to be mean.
Thor Air combo to delay falling S so you can combo into fully charged mighty smash! I think its nifty application of all the hitstun on j.H
Thor Airdash df+l, cr.l,cr.h (kara into grab) - I haven’t started applying this yet, but once you get them looking to block and push block your cr.l I think this is a nice mixup to get going.
Dormmamu - I just like trying to do combos with jump canceled launchers into lvl 3 liberation, looks hella tight to me. Also the redic cross up on square dash j.c is cool.
Also fighting Sentinel with Dormammu is fun and scary especially when everyones got that xfactor up and you are on your last character!
Of course I also see things that are wrong with the game but hopefully as the game progresses these things can be worked out. For now I have fun and I think the people I play have fun as well.
Anyway these are just my opinions, I think people who say they don’t like the game are right to criticize what they see as being wrong. Time will tell whether the game gets picked up or forgotten or just patched to something better!