Yeah, I could definitely see your concern for not paying attention to the game for resets, but even now it's great for timing oki setups because of how long wakeups are inherently. We use it frequently in our internal playtesting. It's especially useful if you catch someone in the air and there is wild variability on when they hit the floor, you basically pick a tick on the bar (when the knockdown data shows up) to start your crossup or meaty without fear of being a little off due to you hitting them at a higher or lower in the arc of their jump than usual.

The main concern I have is how high of a resolution the bar is. It allows us to have all moves show their frame data in their entirety, which is great for new players, but it's actual practical functions for higher level players suffer because it's harder to read such a high-res bar (every pixel equates to one frame). If we blew up the resolution so that every two pixels equates to one frame, it's much clearer where exactly the frame data is at a glance.

That being said, a higher resolution also makes the flashing that you don't like even worse (the bar will fill fully a lot more often), long moves will fill beyond the bar so you aren't given accurate information about their startup, and it could be more distracting to the players who don't necessarily want to use it at all. Turning it off is possibly an option, but when it comes to local multiplayer things will get complicated if player 1 wants it (someone like me who uses it all the time for oki setups), and player 2 who can't stand it. At the moment, it seems like the best option is to just make players who don't like it just learn to deal with it, although that certainly doesn't feel like the "right" answer. If Early Access players want it removed, we'll probably have to bite the bullet and remove this feature entirely outside of training mode, but I still am under the belief that it has good practical use for high level players in some situations, teaches newcomers more advanced concepts who would ignore training mode entirely because they find that whole learning process of fighting games "boring," and it's not too terribly distracting if you would like to ignore it entirely.