Actually a bunch of people thought that Alien was dangerously strong early on -- but they were shouted down by people saying "he's fine" and that everyone needed to learn the matchup. Similar to Tanya.Same.
I think it's very similar to the CSZ/Alien situation. CSZ had very obvious and blatant tools, which lead people to believe he was stronger than he actually was, when patience would have revealed that he was good but nothing overpowering. Instead he was bomb nerfed never to been seen again. The fact is he wasn't nerfed "that hard", it was that he wasn't as good as people thought early on so the nerfs had much bigger consequences than intended as the game played out. The same way you say "right in front of our eyes" is the exact same stance people had with their pitchforks at that time. Meanwhile Alien was barely even mentioned for 3 weeks, so by the time they nerfed he barely was touched and went on to destroy the game for months. People were saying Alien was too slow to be viable and low mid tier the first couple of weeks, but how did that story end? I can see this exact same situation repeating again in the exact same way. We can literally have Deadshot nerfed and some random like Harley or Beetle not be touched but rise to top and it would be an exact replica.
That's my biggest issue. It's easy for you for example to play Cheetah and say "wow this Deadshot is godlike", but it's easy for me to face Adam, Supergirl, Grodd, Aquaman, Arrow, Darkseid, and Atrocitus with a "wtf this MU is tough" face as well. There's MUs I feel these "strong normals" barely even work and I struggle keeping people out. It is a very MU based game unless you're playing the even better characters like Batman, then you always are ok. The proposed nerfs of "nerf WC recovery, unsafe or remove 50/50, reduce meter building, unsafe WU" i keep seeing could have devastating consequences. I can't even imagine how a couple of MUs could be playable with those nerfs. Aquaman could become unplayable.
People think I'm just adamant because I don't want my character nerfed, which is true. But I don't want any character nerfed for months. Not until we know what actually is too strong, or any buffs for people too weak. It's impossible by any standard to know that in week 1 unless someone is 6f mid that's +4 on block broken. We've seen how this plays out wayyy too often to go knee jerk all over again.
Batman.
This is why jumping to conclusions in either direction is ill-advised. Preaching that a character is fine after less than a week is honestly just as bad as calling for nerfs.