Never said everyone figured the game out.
Training room is only for supplementary training.
If you were playing the beta right, you used it as a tool to not only pick your main, but to also find your weaknesses in the game.
The balance is use of both training and fighting. But this isn't a completely new game. It's one anyone who cares about it know what they need to work on.
Unless you're switching controllers, there's no inherent need to overly use the training room, but using the training room to diagnose weaknesses and problem solve will help you get further.
What's more practical and logical? Five hours of fighting one person or 10-20 fights, then watching the replays of your fights to see what you did wrong, go into training and repeat situations for 5-20 minutes to diagnose what you did wrong? You could spend five hours fighting over and over, or spend a few fights fighting and then spending 20 minutes figuring how to win that situation. One is a waste of time; the other is practical.
The only reason I am thinking long term with my plan is because I'm going to be learning stick. Anyone who plays pad and has tried to play stick knows how infuriating it can be. You won't be able to do things you normally could do. Going straight into fights when learning a new control type is fucking moronic. Realizing you're going to be shit because you switched to stick, and want to spend time diagnosing and fixing bad habits and bad execution is the opposite of arrogant. That's hardly overly complicated, and if Infiltration were discussing this he'd agree 100%.
"The training room is a great tool, but you don't learn fundamentals or mind games from playing in a boxed, asylum room."
Quite wrong in fact. How do you expect to learn how to do punish combos if you don't practice them first? Punishing is fundamentals 101. If you aren't practicing punishing in training, you're not practicing punishing period. If you're having trouble with Bison HK, and you want to learn how to beat it, where do you go? Training room. Saying training room doesn't teach fundamentals shows you are not using the training right. At all.