The more nous one needs to throw tech, the better (IMO). If anything, the throw-normals should also be unblockable (as they were in MKX) and be techable for balance. It looks abjectly stupid for Kahn to have his back-breaker "blocked" by a static guarding opponent, and even when they're in a vulnerable crouched stance... Admittedly, as do many of NRS's games' 'intertesting' animation quirks and inconsistencies:
...To those not accustomed to leaving their fighting game brain at the door, before approaching this developer's wares.
The notion that blindly mashing buttons should reward players with something
technical (*underlined for semantic relationship), defies the very concept being promoted:
the deliberate, conscious, calculated, technical and well-executed countering of an opponent's (in this case) throw. Splaying one's simian paws all over a gamepad, or mashing a joystick console like an epileptic chimpanzee in the throes of a grand mal seizure, should
not be rewarded with a throw-break.
Now, whether or not throws are too easy to use/abuse in MK11, is another story entirely. Given the developer's god hand for an IP iteration, I'd have standing and crouching variants for all throws; I'd make the damage output different for all chars., based on char. archetype and the throw being executed; and I'd adjust the window for teching, in order to balance the stronger throws with the weaker ones... I'd also either disallow the throwing of larger combatants who clearly/logically should not be thrown by smaller ones
-or- design throws specific to chars. with large carriage disparities -- example: like throwing "Earthquake" worked in the early Samurai Shodown games.
Of course, none of any of this will ever be implemented into an NRS game, nor will any of the love/hate for their throw mechanics ever be heeded by the developers to any meaningful degree... I mean, they even inexplicably removed the rather enjoyable ability to catch juggled opponents with throws, that was present in MKX!
So... rant on, Tarkata fodder. Rant on!