I think there are many inconsistencies all over the wakeups. I also believe that not every change makes sense. When I say sense I mean the whole purpose of the move and how dose it fit in between the rest of the wakeupe moves.
On the other hand, there could be other ways to make the wakeup system works properly.
There are few key points here that should be always kept in mind while applying changes. I really the armor breaking moves, they are not very strong but they add another layer to the meta. We also have so many useless back dashes, we have the damn "block breaker" or whatever its called, if all those option were takin' care of maybe we would focus so much on the armor moves or maybe we would be it would be really great to have options for different scenarios.
MKX could have really deep defensive system, deeper then any FGC I guess at this moment if all those tools were finished in design aspect.