Back when MKX was first announced and the character speculation started.. If you were told that the cast would include these characters, everyone would be outraged, rightfully so, and saying things like, "is this even MK?" etc etc...
Leatherface, Jason, Predator, Alien, Ferra Torr, Kotal Kahn, Cassie Cage, Jacqui Briggs, Kung Jin, Takeda, D'Vorah, Erron Black.
TWELVE character slots going to unappealing character's kids, experimental stupid ass horror movie guests, and completely brand new characters? At that point you could just call it something else besides MK.
That's too many. That's just flat out too many. If you want to save space by combining all cyborgs into one slot, great. It makes sense to do that because then you can free up character slots for the slew of MK staples that aren't in the game yet.
Instead those freed up slots go to stupid ass horror movie characters no one gives a flying fuck about? There's no way in fucking hell anyone could think god damn leatherface is more deserving of three variations than Smoke is... Or Cyrax... Or Sektor.
This game is barely even MK. Maybe the next game will actually be MK again.