I was definitely surprised by it, because at the back of my head, I was being constantly reminded of how people thought and talked about how Incineroar would be a perfect fit for Pokken online and came to wonder the backlash that would invoke from it.
You can still see posts like
>>33489237 going on about no one ultimately caring about Pokken, even though Pokken is, to a degree,a game that'll be constantly played online on the Switch and will definitely be played more than its Wii U counterpart.