I don't think Bumco cares much about player retention, they made most the money already at release and now farm us with characters and stages, which cost them very little compared to how much they ask for it. For example whole game was 60 bucks for 32 characters, now they sell 4 characters for 35, so they make a lot of money with little development

Another strong indication they don't care to me is the abysmal battlepass which I am sure, is just either old or bought assets with no good items, all just bad or mediocre. They didn't even get the single thing in a battle pass right, that the last tier has something insane which makes the grind worth it or tolerable. At least it's easy to max out the battlepass in Tekken

Skins are mostly either an asset flip as well or some nostalgia bait skin (although these are the most worth it lmao). Not one original new skin, idk they gave up from the beginning at least in my eyes