po pimpus
Smash Ace
THIS. This right here.It's because you're spacing positionally like in Brawl as opposed to just spacing super actively, but yeah, I know what you mean. A lot of melee players actually have awful spacing cause they don't understand how to do it correctly cause they're just moving
When I played Melee for the first time in ages after a long stint playing 2D fighters like SF and Persona(and even Brawl), I noticed a dramatic improvement in my play.
Playing games that require the player to have solid spacing as opposed to just moving around like a spaz fishing for a hit like I used to play Melee forced me to actually think about my hitboxes and where they were in comparison to my opponents hurtboxes.
It's why a guy like Pablo who doesn't do anything really fancy is able to confuse and confound people even today-- because he has phenomenal spacing and vision.