Me and pig were talking on the phone and we both agree that shitty hardware and various monitors mixed with online is really to blame.
4th frame my ass.
This was reproduced with a laptop; the immediate frame before DOES result in a poke, as does the immediate frame after. The test was done to show that as long as the input is exactly on that one bugged frame, it
always results in a standing jab instead of the desired poke. The surrounding frames
always result in a poke. This was done off-line in the practice room, so you can rule out that out.
Its seriously doubt its crappy monitors either; what you're suggesting is that instead of just lagging, certain monitors actually render frames
out of order. I know things can be cheaply made, but that's quite a stretch of a claim, and unless there's proof there are monitors that do this, I say its much more likely to be an error in the game.
Now, that's not to say people aren't using it as an excuse as probably most people are, but for all the supposed bugs in this game, we actually do have a way to 100% reliably reproduce the issue. Honestly I don't know what to tell you if you refuse to believe the results of the test.