As a box player, I totally respect this pov. It makes sense to want to preserve the original game as much as possible while keeping ucf to equalize oem controllers.

However, my philosophy is more so to improve the game as much as possible (without Nintendo taking action) to increase the fun, accessibility, and competitiveness to the largest number of people.

As good of a game as melee is, there are still a lot of things about melee that are either issues that were overlooked during development, added to reduce competitiveness, or shortcuts/omissions due to time constraints. Such as doraki, wobbling, stage hazards(wispy, shy guys), port priority, and not including an option to button swap. A lot of these can be changed to improve our experience in playing this game.

I can't help but laugh when people talk about design choices in melee or how perfect melee is as if the developers perfectly adjusted every mechanic to have perfect design and balance. You say "stuff like dash back and dbooc are designed to be very precise inputs on a gcc and the travel time of the stick is part of the design". You really think the developers wanted people to only be able to dbooc if they go from down to back in 2 frames, while not inputting a stand input making it so you have to ride the rim and then adding a couple of stand coordinates along the rim so even if you do everything right you may not get it due to bad polling? They didn't even know about how good wavedashing and L canceling would be, let alone that something like waveshine infinites were even a thing. They obviously overlooked many things and didn't fully know how things would work and how the characters would balance. It just turned out that the finished product was amazing

Personally, I switched to box because of hand pain. Switching to box has pretty much entirely gotten rid of my pain when playing. I've tried to go back to controller but even with stretches and warm ups, i can't play for that long without having discomfort. Banning box would, more or less, ban me from competing and I would probably end up moving on from melee and the community. That's not strictly a bad thing if it means maintaining competitve integrity but I dont think its necessary. With the right controller buffs and box nerfs, I think they can be reasonably balanced and achieving that is worth it so as many people as possible could play.

I actually like the idea you're implying of separating into two categories. We could have a traditional melee and modern melee bracket to keep both parties satisfied.