No.
He said it twice, in two separate ways.
Post-Brawl: Ridley is probably impossible. If we really worked on it, maybe we could. But he'd be pretty slow.
Post-Smash 4: Ridley works far better as a boss. As a fighter, he would lose the intimidation that makes him Ridley.
He isn't happening as DLC.
He first says he is impossible, then that he would be possible if he would be worked on. It sounds like he never thought of it before the interview and just thought of it after being asked about it.
Second one is him saying its impossible (because of bulls**t reasons and Sakurai can be wrong, as proven with lack of stage hazard switch and tripping in Brawl, among other things). Can't deny that.
I don't think he will happen as a DLC character. I lost faith in Sakurai on this and many other things a while ago. Until he is either replaced or he changes his opinion, i don't expect him to be playable.
No. People were really taken aback due to the art style of Wind Waker.
As they were about Twilight Princess being more realistic, and Skyward Sword being a blend of the 2.
People haven't said against Zelda U because namely it doesn't look much different than SS.
Thats what im talking about. It wasn't because of the gameplay being nothing like it was before.
no, what Reggie said is the truth.
people really complained mostly because it was different. I still am shocked that it happened, but it really did.
I make the parallel with spm tbh, most of the complains I got was that it wasn;t sequelising TTYD while tbh with you, it shouldn;t have sequelised it int he first place and the way spm handled the series was quite awesome. I still agree there;s flaws, but it did really good stuff.
Wind waker was kinda like that. having played that game, I no longer understands these complaints....
Even if thats true (i wasn't present at that time, so, i only know about it from what people say now), i don't think it will go just as well since WW still had OoT kind of gameplay while FF has Metroid Prime combat mechanics, Metroid designs and characters (except "super deformed") and thats it.