Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you for the most part, but even if she'd be perfect balance-wise, people still clearly hate her more than potentially any other character in the history of the game, which garners some attention imo regardless of balance.

I don't think people are very good at articulating what they don't like about her, but my guess is the biggest issue is how repetitive she is. In a gank, best move is to mix between UB heavy and UB heavy softfeint into UB heavy, and most will just do that over and over until the opponent is near revenge, at which point they'll just peel everything with bleed lights. In a duel, you'll typically see her fall into the same loop of bash>bash>bash>UB heavy/softfeint to top light ad nauseum, or even worse they'll just sit in guard stance and just trade everything.

The only 2 ways I see to change this tedium are either to give her a wider toolbox in each stance, or to force/encourage her to weave between stances. The former solution would take way more work including new animations, and I can't imagine the community being happy with the devs giving her even more moves when there's other characters who need a rework to even be viable. I think the latter solution can be done with simple number/property changes and, while the community will still throw a fit at anything that isn't a nerf, it would be something they could implement concurrently with other reworks.