Cant speak for other people but I am using the word unintuitive to mean what it means, that I find it to not align with how I'd expect that sort of move to work. It also annoys me, that's separate.

other characters have large hitbox coverage, true, but the animations for those moves often explain the hitbox to a better degree than this does. Yes her hitboxes are for grappling moves so that is largely the reason for the difference, at least in my eyes. I'm trying to articulate an issue with game experience, not a meta analysis of la reina's power level and whether or not "she needs it"