Most of this statement can apply to any PvP game, you gotta suffer as a beginner just to get a shot at keeping up with the pros, but if you manage to get there it’s genuinely satisfying to see results
Another reminder that fighting games will NEVER be casual friendly.
Change a million things about the genre, some for the better, but humans HATE losing.
The only sure way to make a fighting game grow with casuals is to make it so cool that they want to push through the pain.