>>714932474Not him but I disagree, I think you underestimate how many fellow new players there and greatly overestimate how good they are and how much time it takes to get to an average level. Especially in more populated games like SF. I picked up SFV very late in it's lifespan, a game with less players than 6 and which had no placement matches, and I played against people that literally just held forward at me and pushed buttons when they got close. I got into fighting games as an adult and I've watched other friends pick them up. It is not as hard as you think it is.
That being said, fighting games are at least somewhat inherently competitive and if you don't like comp games at all and don't have any friends interested in picking them up with you then, fair enough, you're probably not going to enjoy them and they likely aren't for you.