I have a message for Steve haters.
Look, you can dislike Steve and Minecraft. It is your opinion at the end of the day, no one but you can change that.
However, saying that "Character X would have been far better for Smash than Steve!!!" is ridiculous.
The only games that rival Minecraft in terms of popularity and iconicness is probably League of Legends and Grand Theft Auto V. Games like Among Us, PUBG, and Fortnite are contenders right now, but they weren't even released in 2015, when Steve was apparently in the works.
I doubt we'll get those, maybe LoL but that feels like a bit of a longshot, at least for this pass. In terms of fighters, anyway. They might be pretty likely as spirits or Mii costumes, and as far as future Smash games go, it remains to be seen. We could have a lot of strong contenders for fighters once Smash 6 rolls around, even moreso than now. Point is, I don't think this will be a slippery slope that means we'll get Jonsey or whatever. At least not anytime soon, and in the interim, we'll get plenty of characters the Smash fanbase will love. The current pass will not be filled with any of these.
And Minecraft just has way more going for it than those games do. Not trying to knock those games, they're good in their own right. But Minecraft is literally king when it comes to popularity, has insane potential for the things you can create, or survival mode if you prefer to play that way. Additionally, Steve had way more moveset potential than any other character, not just the ones mentioned in this post. Obviously any character has moveset potential, but after I gave it some thought, it was clear to me that mining and crafting would open a plethora of options for Steve. And then we saw his moveset and that's exactly what happened.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't like Steve, lol.