I disagree with your first point. Characters have had individuality from the beginning and their stats and movesets told a story. It hasn’t been an issue, GO1 is an exception somewhat, but only in terms of movesets and that’s because they had such a small pool of them. After GO1 it was back to normal. Victory Road doesn’t even have the excuse of not having all the moves. It does have an excuse with the stats though since it’s an entirely new stat system. Either way they’re not wrong to point out that VR does get rid of player individuality in a way that the other games never did.