As someone who dabbles in other fighters this games wakeup system has to be the worst (among dbfz which also has a ridiculous amount of wakeup options that are also free) but these concepts are common place in other fgs. The main issue is that visually the getup animation isn’t distinguishable which makes timing things harder.
The thing is that they got this right before and meaties weren’t as silly to time in older nrs games, but even injustice. Literally Injustice has a fine wakeup system and meaties are consistent and comfortable, likewise with mkx, there’s no reason why they can’t do the same for this game too.