Attack Cancelling (Backdash cancel video)

I wasn't asking why people would take advantage of it -- it's obvious that people will exploit whatever is possible to exploit, particularly when competing. What I'm asking is why people would argue that the developers should intentionally allow for it. And people have, repeatedly, claimed that BDC is an Igavania staple, and should be intentionally implemented. The demand is for an intentional combo system that isn't an intentional combo system, and for the game not to be balanced around it. Essentially, people are just begging for a way to cheat that they're familiar with.

I'm saying the developers should either prevent it, or implement it in an intentional way that looks good and is explained to the player as intentional mechanics, and balance around it, rather than just turn a blind eye.

I don't understand how people can be ok with this, and yet be opposed to an intentionally designed combo system or chain attacks. The ability to exploit the engine like this devalues any depth the rest of the combat mechanics might have, and invalidates much of the claims about the virtues of the simplistic combat system. What does pacing, spacing, striking and retreating, etc. matter when you can just go in and destroy an enemy within seconds by breaking the animations?

I can understand complaints that command-inputs or complex attack chains focus too much on dexterity, technical skill, and reflexes, while diminishing the importance of space management and tactical play, but how is this any different? Cancelling is about practicing frame-level timing and button sequences. The main difference is that it's "secret", and not intentionally designed, and therefore unlikely to be well balanced, with complex choices or tradeoffs. It's simply practice the skill for an advantage with no downsides, and ignore the rest of the intentional mechanics that would otherwise have depth, but are rendered useless in comparison.

I can only guess that people like the feeling of "cheating the system", or using "advanced techniques" that are counter-intuitive, and therefore unlikely to be discovered by a normal player, giving the elites an edge that they can take pride in. Players look for whatever advantage they can, trying to "beat" the developer. The thing is, it's the developer's job to make something fun and engaging. Their work just seems wasted and unappreciated if people just go and break it. It's like children and cats, preferring to play with the box the toy came in rather than the toy itself. Why bother making or buying toys, if people just want to play with boxes?