Fwiw I haven't seen them conflate W101 and Splatoon. That's a bridge too far for anyone with their head screwed on properly. They just think WR will get in because... idk. I guess they think he's relevant enough, when he's not (and the game's not even being built that way now) or popular enough... when he's not. It would lend more credence to their disparaging of Isaac if a more consistent logic was maintained.
I mean seriously, Wonder Red is cool, I'd love for an AT, but his game was a massive massive bomb, and his popularity is good, but not good enough. I just can't see the character having a shot bar a W102. And if we can't even get a W101 port, we're not getting a W102.
Oh and also Liam Robertson's name really doesn't come up. Like most places, they talk about Verg and loz the most. And then Imran, because he's a member there. Basically they're very very entrenched in the Smash 4 notion of recency, and haven't realized there's been a sea change yet.