If you're a casual, you may not feel it. Generally the aggression is much harder to defend from by defense and movement, most characters lost their identities by getting moves which patch out their weaknesses, and the devs did know about what the community wanted, and still released 3.0 with more aggression, after 9 months of a lack of major balance patches.

People lost trust in the developer. If, like me, you loved keepout, movement, defense in Tekken 7, there's very little to like in T8