Actually there is a skill gap in Brawl, but it's less tech skill and more using your option. Like, the difference between mid and high level Dedede is absolutely enormous, because it's literally playing dynamically with a one-dimensional character. But then somebody picks MK and... well **** it. Seriously, Brawl would be 100x better with MK banned. Then people could complain about Diddy instead. Sangoku, if you actually put time into Brawl you wouldn't be getting crushed by randoms. Unless you're Dedede, Zelda, or something that just gets ***** by Nado, but even then they won't be spacing it properly so you can just punish.
Roneblaster, you are aware that the Melee community is slowly shrinking, right? Not very many new people are picking up Melee. Lost players, in general, aren't replacable. Also the BR build of Project M is apparently legitimately starting to feel like Melee. I don't give a **** if you want to claim it doesn't feel like Melee, Melee camera is almost as bad as Brawl camera in that it's far too close whereas Brawl is far too zoomed out. And if you really want your ****ty low-quality character models then nobody is forcing you to play Project M.