Persona 5 fans (NOT any Persona fans before that game) are the most toxic fanbase I have ever met. Every person that has a Joker profile picture or some resemblance has turned out to be a horrific person in some way or another. Not even joking with that.
Trust me when I say this, though: I don't think FE fans are at fault here. Persona 5 fans are RABID, to the point they'll send people death threats.
Videos like these illustrate that perfectly.
Eh, Persona 5's hardcore fanbase is pretty bad in the long run (same with FE fans); but honestly speaking I still think the Smash fanbase overall is one of the most toxic games to deal with. Ironic I know, but I'm pretty sure many people feel the same way. You have Melee VS Ultimate fanboys (although that has cooled off), and on top of that you have people people saying ____ is pretty much confirmed, but lol if you think a character like _____ would ever get into Smash.
I wouldn't doubt if a part of Sakurai pretty much loathes the Smash fanbase. I mean he's practically admitted he can't really talk about games/characters on his own twitter because people will pretty much throw a fit at the "hints", I think he's decently careful about not talking about games he likes at this point (unless they're already in Smash, super small, or super big). I know Harada (General Manager at Bamco) pretty much told fans to shut up talking about/spamming them with character requests, because he'd tell Sakurai to NOT put them into Smash.
Even here, on twitter, gamefaqs, 4chan, etc. Every small thing is "taken" as a hint on who the next character may end up being, which is fine (because hints definitely
DO exist). But when those "hints" don't end up playing out, certain fanbases get really burned out and other fanbases call them out for it. Even I was expecting Geno to be revealed today (RIP) mostly due to insiders talking about him, but now I'm back to 50/50 as the next reveal being Geno as I think even insiders were pretty much guessing at Geno (the fact that insiders were pretty much said that they were "joking", doesn't help either). And while I do believe insiders knowing about certain
games being revealed in the coming months being big, and mistakenly thinking they would be revealed now. I just don't know if they knew about a Smash DLC reveal in particular considering how closely guarded they tend to be until like a couple days before a direct airs (if there actually is a full blown reveal).
And the salt that certain reveals generated pretty much speak for themselves.
At this point it's pretty much waiting for the next "big" character for a lot of people, and every other character for the most part is met with differing levels of disdain especially of they are "unexpected".
At the very least, hopefully the next
ACTUAL direct comes sooner rather than later. I'm going to be guessing September though. Hopefully Geno is revealed around then.