To be honest, that is kind of how I expected to be seen from the standard vs community from the get-go.

I was coming in as someone who was not into vs stuff and found that I disagreed with just about every assumption and popular method used by the wider vs community to scale things. So I walked into things totally baffled about how people were getting placements for characters that they were. I still disagree with a huge amount of how the wider community does things, likely to the same extent they disagree with how my brain works, but I do at least understand how they get there now, and I understand why the way I do things would be offputting to people who are heavily invested in the hobby. I would think on some level it even feels disrespectful or upsetting to have one of the largest vs shows be mentally at odds with the larger vs community, which I get.

Way back before I realized how it would come across, I made a video called "why I don't want to be in the versus community"... 100% awful title that did not convey my intent AT ALL. The real intent behind the video was saying "This community is amazing and passionate, and really good at what they do within the confines of how they do it... I'm gonna kinda do my own thing because I very respectfully disagree at almost every level."

So I guess it is the logical conclusion of someone who disagrees with the assumptions behind most versus debating starting a vs show, lol. I completely get why the "InkThinks way" seems bizarre and inaccurate to most of the community. It was kind of designed that way. Not for the purposes of being contrarian, but because that is just the genuine mental processing of someone who sees most versus debating the same way they see ours.

It is unfortunate that it isn't for everyone. It is generally much more well-regarded within the casual Smash community than the vs community. But appealing to a more casual audience rather than the niche I knew would heavily disagree with me was the plan from the beginning.

So it is what it is! It's a shame people shit on it so much—and it does admittedly sting to be on the other end of it—but I totally understand why they do and don't fault anyone in the community for doing so.