Been advocating for them since the beta. This is 100% the right move, glad they FINALLY came to their senses. I wonder how everyone who said I was crazy and that custom variations would never make it into competitive play feel right about now?
At any rate, fantastic news!
Imo it's not really about 'coming to their senses'.. We said a long time ago that doing it at launch would have been a massive mistake, as the game would have been ridiculously broken, with the amount of time they had to make it work.
Now that the meta has settled more, we know what tools do, and now that they've had lots of time to test and balance, it's the right time to make the move.
And now we have a major change that will build hype a year and a half in, after people begged them to support the games for longer so that they'd have more life. MK11 will live for longer than any title we've had.
Anyone who thinks that this wasn't months to more than a year in the planning/making, and that they just suddenly decided to throw this in, just doesn't get how game development works. This was definitely not an overnight decision, and I'm glad they took time to do it the right way.