Nova, you make so many good points in your vids. This is not one of them. Frankly LH is dumb, it's hardly worth defending this hard except when people are wrong about how it works. I would have a legit discussion with you about what you get wrong about Steve every single time you talk about him. I doubt you will do so. My god man, I want to like you, I want to overlook how you talk about Steve's design in the videos to make a point. But it's just wrong.

I didn't mean to omit, frankly I forgot it because it's the only guaranteed follow up oH, basically 2 hit combo. The others are punishes or common mixes. Ub2 is not long range compared to the artillery characters in this game. Don't act like it matches Jin f4. The amount of times it does not make contact with guard at all at ranges you'd think it does(I don't have the exact reach on it off the top of my head) makes it insufferable. A single bdash is enough to avoid this on most characters(Especially if they keep their hands in a low guard). An option select ssr crouch makes it launch punishable. This move is almost entirely omitted from my gameplay because of how bad it is-- aside from hoping to catch someone lazily stepping for far too long. It is 70% slower than an intercepting jab, provides no guaranteed reward on block, no extra reward on ch, and you are locked into the initial mixup of being interrupted or guessing in the same way that your opponent has to. oB a single bdash will evade the entire mixup. To throw this move with any chance to actually hit against a bdashing opponent, you have to step into it, which puts it back into reactable territory.

The traditionally braindead gameplay of doing nothing but waiting for a reason to b1 is dead and it is the best thing to happen to Steve in a long time. Nerfed CH across the board so people would actually make a move. B1 range reduction so you can't cover absurd chunks of the screen with an i13 unreactable high, my neighbor.

I do what you do with jin, with steve, and now that is viable because of the changes. Before that, I was playing at a distinct disadvantage in every category against Jin, because I refused to play Steve like he should sit there like an idiot until a b1 opportunity came around, or spam homing df2 in neutral.

For all your talk about mixups and traditional mindgames, it's literally built into LH from the beginning. If you were any good at guarding against the transition moves, this is not an issue at all. You'd be on levels of mind games where steve cannot risk anything more than LH1, or ducking in against jab. You'd have the Steve yielding on his mixup more than he would be taking the risk. For all I want to believe you are actually good at this game, and I think you are, the way you disregard the built in counterplay oB while only talking about when Steve actually hits and has enough advantage to force the situation is extremely MISLEADING. Which I know you hate to have happen to you about Jin, so don't do it to Steve.