>>715784504
Sort of?
You are leaving out the entire aspect of reaction time, mind games and adjusting mid match to condition your opponents, but you yourself said you might be just misinformed so at least you are aware of that.
I think there is a sweet spot with fighting games, a point where you are not just casually mashing and you are actually trying to learn the game, but still not deep enough where you go full tryhard and tier-whore.