Which is why I told you.
Yeah well his boss fights were and he used a lot of cool moves. Plus he's very unorthodox in a way no other smash character is. Sure Ness, Jigglypuff, all the team characters, Mr. G&W, Wario, Ike, and in some ways all of the 5 Smash For newcomers are unorthodox, but none of them do anything like what Ridley does.
Yeah, I agree (at least in Smash Wii U). Honestly, L-cancelling like lag reduction should be automatic. As for wavedashing, some sort of quick dashing is a fine substitute, which it appears we have that for at least Sonic. Honestly the reason people like wavedashing is the quicker walking movement. If they just get a faster startup speed mechanic going, no one will really missing.
Still, something akin to wavelanding (and not the sorry Brawl wavelanding) would be nice to have back The tether system being fixed was great BTW.