Nice completely ignoring 90% of my argument. My point again old man is that fighting games have 0 people playing them and that having a good balance cadence will fix that. This endless cycle you talk about is what is happening in every single MODERN game.
In this podcast that came out today, they literally say that the Valorant devs balance their cycle around e-sports. Every single riot game takes into account e-sports in their balance cycles where they patch the game so that there is enough time for pros to practice before events. So yes there is a purpose to practicing.
And it's not like you are patching every single character in the fucking game. Valorant just buffed guess how many characters 2. just two characters. Its not like I am asking for updates every 2 weeks at the same scale as a new season or anything like that. I want updates that are needed when something is drastically bad about the game or something that can improve characters that a lot of people aren't playing. Which is what modern fighting games do.
Valorant and even league doesn't have major patches a lot they have frequent small patches that keep the game fresh for most people. It's not that deep bro.