It's not the same.
At no point in MK9 did I see a group of all the top players saying "this character completely disregards all the rules of the game". I saw characters being called 'op', zoning being called unbalanced or too powerful, or people asking for specific details of a character to be toned down like raiden's original teleport, kung lao low hat frames, cyrax infinites and reset damage.
But those are the same things people said about Superman, Killer Frost, Vanilla Cyborg etc.
If people can't see the difference between stuff like that and the Scorpion complaints at this point, I really don't know what to say. You are seeing players that 'toughed it out' and valiantly fought Kabal, Kenshi, and the rest of the MK cast say that this character is nothing like Kabal. You are seeing Kabal players that now play Scorpion say that this character has 0 to do with Kabal and that Kabal still played according to the fundamental rules of the game.
Not that everyone has to agree.. But people are being flat out dishonest or trying to paint it as something different that it is.
If a guy says he's going to herp-derp his way into top 8 at a major with a 3-day version of the character, and he actually does it, you'd have to be blind to not see the difference between that and someone like Lulzlou or Cat working their butt off to reach a top level with a character like Kabal. Look at all the work pig put in with Kenshi, grinding all kinds of matchups and innovating tech just to have a shot at winning serious tournaments.
The comparison is flat-out ridiculous.
