He just doesn't belong in a Smash game. He's surely well known in the SF games and the "vs. Capcom" and w/e, and we already have Pac-man as a Namco rep (my memory on Capcom/Namco history isn't great, so my wording may be wrong), but isn't having Ryu too pushing it too much especially when Capcom already has Megaman, who they have neglected for a long time as of late? Like I said, it took me a while to get used to Pac-man, but I will not get used to this guy til like a year blows over. Next thing you know, we'll have another absurd character around.
Plus isn't Smash supposed to be about NINTENDO characters beating each other up? I can understand Sonic due to recent Nintendo support when it came to some of his games on their systems and him being massively requested back in the Brawl days, Snake in Brawl... I don't knowledge about this one so I'll skip it. Then we had Pac-Man in Smash 4 because Namco helping out with the game, though I still don't approve of him being in but I sucked it up and accepted it. But Ryu... aside from the very, very few games he's been in on Nintendo, has he done anything significantly for Nintendo?
Like I said, sorry for being paranoid. Aside from absurd character wants/choices all over the world that I had to deal with and all the leak/rumor talk even after Smash was released does get under my skin. I'd think we'd be passed this... but ever since DLC happened, it's gonna last a long time, and it sometimes makes me sad as well.