I'd play Cass even if she was Kano bad, I just don't understand the need to hate characters that are perfectly balanced. Heck, some Sub players stormed the Cass forum before the patch because of slaty loses online (not you). You love a character, you shouldn't feel forced to change just because they're good, it's not your fault, but people come here to complain cause they lose.
You may not have a 9 frame mid but you can mix someone's shit all day and still win.
You're definitely not wrong about people whining after they lose to things, or to characters. I'm sure you've seen or at least heard of the shenanigans that has occurred in the Sub-Zero forums in every MK, but especially this one! People bomb-rushing our Sub-Zero threads to 'politely' inform us that our character was busted, broken, pea-brained and every other hyperbolic pejorative they could think to hurl at us. And then when we Sub mains tell them how to beat our broken strategy of overhead or low, they proceed to tell us how wrong we were!
But, I realized that amidst the torrent of vitriol and dribble, their complaints had a single iota of truth: Sub-Zero had no business being able to loop his 50/50 mix business. Just having the option to combo off both overhead and low is powerful enough in this game - he shouldn't be able to cancel a string or normal and be +16 or +22.
So I stated for the record that I wanted NRS to reduce the hit advantage of his standing 2 and B32/B14 strings so that Sub cannot guarantee a low/overhead attempt. And some of my fellow Sub mains disagreed with that, but I said what I said and meant it. And I still mean it - I still want NRS to fix those things so that Sub players without neutral can't just guess their way to victory. That kind of rubbish was tolerated for far too long during MKX and it has no place here in MK11. Plus, I don't like playing against Sub's looping mix or even watching it in action any more than anyone else does.
As for what you said, you're absolutely right about Sub being able to mix and win. The problem is, that strategy's about as reliable as your opponent's guessing-ability. And if they can react to that overhead, then ain't no mix. However, these safe, ranged 9-frame combo-starting characters can do their stuff to just about everybody except each other.
All in all, I would like to see the whole cast be brought to around the Kabal/Baraka level, where they are super strong in unique ways, but can be effectively counter-played by diligent players. And the opponents of these characters still get to play the game, most especially when it's time to poke.
A Cassie Cage with an F4 that's more in line with Baraka's would still be a monstrous character that doesn't play any differently than she does now. Just like a Sub-Zero that earns his turn to try and mix, instead of being able to loop it is still a strong character.
