Well this all sounds like a lot of suck. Not sure I really want it at all now. I usually don't care much about playing people, but I've been doing more of it and it's really hard to juggle lots of games anyway.
I did do several hundred hours on MKX against the CPU only, but I'm not sure I want to go in knowing that's really the only option. Might be one thing if it was unremarkable, but bad is another thing.
I can't say I was expecting magic. Good netcode is only now becoming a thing. It's been clear they were trying their hearts out with the game, but it's also obvious they were struggling a bit to really hit the modern quality bars.
I will probably still grab it since I do want to reward all the effort and hope they invested in the game. They want to bring the SNK franchises back and I want that too. Kind of sucks that netcode can kill a game. There was no such thing as online when I started fighting.