I was worried but after looking at the Twitter evidence I cannot really take it seriously.
Aubrey is just the head of community voice, meaning that she just relays feedback from the community to the Minecraft devs. She most likely wouldn’t know about Steve as it’s not within her division, plus even most of Mojang may be left out of the decision seeing as Microsoft would be the one calling the shots and their creator, Notch, that they’d need permission from, doesn’t work at Mojang any more. As we know, Smash is very secretive so I doubt most would know about Steve’s inclusion, especially Community Voices and new employees.
Also, Aubrey’s comments seem completely off the rails as she is basically mocking the main character of the series she was hired to promote. It seems like a lot of sarcasm not meant to be taken seriously or more opinion than concrete decomfirmation.
Honestly Minecraft is still one of the most likely candidates at this point....
Verge claims its coming, and he was one of few to not give into the Grinch leak and predict the entire base roster.
It was one of 5 titles within that other leak, which may not be credible, but every franchise excluding Ninja Gaiden does have quite a bit of evidence.
It’s a Sakurai column, which has only been used for what 4 games from 3rd parties that Sakurai praised including the speculated Doom and confirmed Persona 5.
MC is a big Nintendo 3rd party weirdly enough, it got a 3DS, spotlight in Nintendo Switch Online, and is what started crossplay between Nintendo and XBOX