No it doesn't excuse it, but I have a hard time getting too upset about it.
And yeah, I would love more move sets. But you know what, fighters break out moves you've never seen them do before all the time, and I think that was something they wanted to imitate in the first game.
Maybe get the move sets right, but have a button combo that will randomly throw something that even the person throwing it doesn't know what's coming.
Cain Velasquez had never thrown a spinning back kick before but when he launched it against Travis Browne, that was pretty cool, but I don't think he needs a spinning kick in his rotation.
But maybe making it where you have to hold an uncomfortable number of buttons (I don't have a proper way to describe this) and being in the proper range when you throw it, unleashes a random attack that if timed right does some serious damage (like Cain's random spinning kick).
You would have to balance it properly and sort of make it hard to pull off (you don't want Cain Velasquez becoming the HW Wonderboy), but there are other arcadey things (that isn't a complaint) like the Holloway taunt, that I think something like this could be fun...
And now I wait for the first NOPE.
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