Do I believe Dante affects Geno's chances? No. Why? Because we have a very interesting timeline established in characters that have been relevant in insider circles. Geno, Ryu, Dan Backslide, and Lloyd all entered the conversation in 2018. In 2019, Crash, Dante, Sol Badguy, and arguably Masterchief became big topics next. Again, it makes me hard scratch my... Chin and heavily consider the timeline theories we've established. It really makes me wonder. Let's pull Geno out for sec...
My theory is that Geno was one of the first DLC characters decided past the Fighter's Pass. I have a feeling that Sakurai had a list of characters that he was super interested in adding and he just carried that over. Fighter's Pass is finalized in November 2018. Season 2 very well could have been on his mind already. Move forward from there. A whole bunch of weird Geno stuff happens in June/July 2019. This makes me wonder if this was when he started development. Six months later, we're in January. We've established that characters seem to be ready to "present" as early as four months out. April is four months from now. Supposedly two characters went into the "polish stage" in mid to late December. A trailer could hypothetically already be ready for Geno just like Joker had one at the VGAs. My theory is that Weird Al Yankovic will be ready sometime in February. Add two months and we're at April, falling in line with the typical release schedule of DLC characters since 2015.