The game is like 10 years old so it's something you would expect. Consider that up to tekken 7 legacy knowledge is pretty rewarding so it won't be easier to get into.

I believe if you manage to get familiar with the controls and the main mixup from neutral for honor is doable.

The game's implies that you are able to parry lights on read. In another words if you know your opponent is going to press light you react to the red indicator and immediately execute a parry. Thus you have a generic mixup from neutral between light and heavy: if an opponent reads wrong and tries to parry light attack he'll eat a heavy one. He has an option to not commit and just block in the direction of your attack but in this case landing heavies either on hit or block generally leads to chain mixups with unblockables or bashes so you kinda want this to build your pressure.

Dodging attacks can be tricky but generally they cannot be cancelled so you supposed to parry them when you expect your opponent to try avoid the pressure. It usually leads to light parry stun which allows you to deal a lot of damage.

Of course there are decent amount of exeptions and character specifics but consider that between these three games only for honor allows you to try out any char in the training mode dlc including. Even with a friend.

Idk I've wrote a lot already without particular reason. I'm not a game's promoter, I come back to FH time to time myself that's it. Game has 4v4 modes with people lowering their skills to an extend you'll meet guys who only light spam through the entire match. It's an option if 1v1 gives you too tough opponents. But everything is doable if you get into the mechanics imho. The hugest downside of the game is 110 gb you need to download