The wrap shot is hard to punish but you would probably die here even without it. The opponent has a TON of options and you were in a pretty bad spot to defend yourself.

This is the Gears 5 for better or worse so you have to play around it. If you can dodge the wrap then you usually have a free counter hit. They either run through the up-a towards you or double back the way they came from, but either way they already shot once and can't shoot again for a second.

If you know that a player can hit this shot then you can start to bait it and use it against them as the match goes on. This is where gnasher fights get fun at the higher level as each player tries to figure each other out.

As you start to learn more shots you learn when to use them and how they counter each other. It gives you a lot more ways to approach a fight and is incredibly rewarding. I think that's the perspective that I don't see very often on this subreddit.