The amount of salt about having to unlock things that will be done after the first week is asinine. After that you'll have a good 6-9 years with the full unlocked roster.
The thing is that logic applies to literally every arbitrary in-game timer.
The rest of the game is affected by the previous timers, but when those are in place you're stuck with a gimped version of the game.
No one saying that this is ruining Smash or anything, but it is a pain for the day or 2 you have to deal with them, especially for people that don't have access to their switches a lot of the time.
It's just an unnecessary archaic pain in the neck that doesn't need to exist.
Which is especially telling when the only case made for why it needs to exist is "it's not
that bad."