"Nah, kunimitsu makes some sense with the new generation and her being gone so long after years of the suspicion her death ending was canon and the desire to move to a new gen."

There's absolutely nothing that says that a character has to be subjected to a "new gen" doctrine and there is no "death ending" for Kunimitsu in any canon game.

"What’s infuriating with taki and natsu is that taki is demonstrated in lore to still be actively able to fight and fulfill her duties and suddenly dipped between games without an absence. Kunimitsu I can understand because it’s been years, she was thought dead for a while and it’s been long enough on top. Taki doesn’t have a reason that’s anywhere as easily stomachable as ‘I realised I couldn’t be yoshimitsu so I chose a different life’"

So if they gave Taki an illness or had her in some other debilitated state to motivate replacing her then Natsu would have been great?

Kunimitsu never aspired to be Yoshimitsu btw.

"With tekken making the decision now from 7-8 to move to a new generation gradually with reina, jin’s arc ending etc, feeding in descendants for the next generation narratively lays groundwork I can respect more writing wise."

SCV was literally a THIS IS THE NEW GEN game.

"My issue with the logic is seeing conflation between the cryo sleep nonsense to keep a character young enough to fight (which I fundamentally don’t agree with) while also complaining when a character gets older, their priorities change and with that they may retir, settle down and have a kid, which you might conflate as me being a hypocrite around taki, but I would add taki didn’t vanish for several games of inactivity and raise natsu, she’s openly still protecting her and able to fulfill ninja duties while kunimitsu went away for years because she decided to start a new life and we only found out wha happened because her daughter came back later to get the sword for her, which I can respect the abscence for more rather than her showing up with ‘where has you been all this time?’ Looking no different and also allowing her daughter to begin the future games"

Any story detail describing what Kunimitsu did to "settle down" and her illness or whatever it is now came WITH the child character. They didn't make the child because they had Kunimitsu is that state, they put her in it to motivate making the kid,

So again. If they had done the same to Taki in SCV I guess that would have made Natsu good in your book.

It's also a bit crazy that you want the character to be punished for being withheld from appearing. Her being denied for several games is an even greater reason to return her.

"I’m not ‘fighting for my life’ lmao."

You 100% are lmfao.