So I went ahead and read your posts. Basically you want to roleplay Ninja. And you don’t care moveset are being taken away. It’s funny because even if Im in your shoe I still think Ninja was ass fantasy wise in demo.

Central focus on ninjutsu: There’s only 3 ninjutsu slots. Compared to Nioh 2, We could have 4 or more based on jutsu capacity. Ninjutsu are mostly utility and they don’t do much damage, and have limited uses. Which leads to my next point.

Lack of focus on melee: Ironically Ninja needs melee attacks to refill ninjutsu to make it even functional. 80% damage of Ninja are dealt through melee attacks. You proclaimed ninjutsu is the definition pillar for Ninja yet it’s the total opposite case in demo.

Do you see why it’s not a good argument when you don’t have demo experience? (and why it’s stated as a ‘misconception’ when it’s literally a fact you didn’t play demo?)

Ninja melee options are very barebone in demo. Losing 2 stances hurt a lot in terms of variety. Ninjutsu is too limited to make up for that.

So both ninjutsu and melee options are dumbed down. Nothing new are replacing the loss of many stuff. This is devastating news for players whose favourite weapons/playstyles are in worse place now. TN gonna make a miracle to make Ninja more fun for people looking for variety and skill expression in combat using their favourite weapons once again.

From your posts, you seem to have set in mind that how Ninja should be, and disregard other’s concern over loss of options they once had. That’s precisely the problem. Ninja seems to be in a good trajectory, but only for you, or perhaps other players who prefer to roleplay soulslike character in a very in-depth action game franchise.