I have a soft spot for lower tier competitive, generally where Machine, TLO and InControl now reside.
Still, MVPGenius is carrying the P torch like a boss in the GSL. Am so excite.
Kengo is apparently the successor to Bushido Blade 2. All of them turned out to be remarkably terrible.
As for a remake to BB, I'm pretty sure enough people are jaded by the current fighting game oligopoly to play it.
Maybe harder, but not impossible. (I actually 236x2 and 623 better on a PS3 pad though.) The skill ceiling for pad definitely got higher when players like Vangief started showing up.
I play a lot of rhythm games, so stick is more of a natural transition for me.
The core advantage that comes to mind is the simplicity of gestures. You are using your entire hand and a bit of your wrist in a single downwards direction rather than maneuvering your thumb. Because your fingers...
I'm not faulting FR for responding to a topic because it is a reasonable reaction to an argument, but overall, any statements to the degree that a character is broken is just bad talk in general at this specific time frame, no matter who started it. They were damned when the point came up...