Changes are made with overall balance in mind, not so much every single complaint from certain players. A widespread complaint was how effective grapplers (namely Gief and Hugo) were at the range game, which was absurd. Hugo already received a nerf way before the patch, but Gief still had unusual range priority on par with, say Cody - which is crazy. A lot of this was explained in the change videos pages back.
Ryu, Kazuya, and other 'top' characters got major nerfs possibly worse than Gief. Raven was hit hard, for instance.
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