honestly...Minecraft Steve is frustrating. Banjo and Joker were great additions, but the rest are eeeeeh

Why do you find him frustrating?

I admit I play minecraft and all but I'm confused as to why "they" were added myself? Not against it, just confused as I admit I like the mechanics but in a fight, do you really think your opponent will give you the time to set up like that? Still an interesting choice, but I love that final smash though! Reminds me of all the times I used to play back in alpha. Ahhh... Creepers~ "Mojang's lil oopsie~"

Sorry got nostalgic there...

It'll definitely be interesting to see in practice, because obviously you won't be free to build things like was shown in the trailer. Unless you're playing with friends with the deliberate goal of just screwing around and building/destroying things. Maybe do an all Steve match, see what interesting things you can build, then blow them up with bob-ombs.

A costume's better than nothing.

While Steve's inclusion does make sense, I am disappointed. And that's not just because i'm not a fan of Minecraft.
His building/crafting seem like it would be more convoluted than fun or interesting (although that impression is just from the trailer, so we do need to wait for the actual details of how it works), and visually, I hate his stiff limbs. They work fine in Minecraft, but as an action game character... he seems stiff and awkward to say the least.

Convolution is why I'm not too keen on Hero. His spell menu is a cool concept for referencing the Dragon Quest games, but it's also an overly complicated distraction from the action, especially since the spell selection is randomized.

Which ones would you be truly excited about personally? And with truly excited, do you simply mean any form of excitement and feeling intruiged, or is it just about getting hyped?

I personally am rather easygoing. I find a lot of enjoyment from things like the music and stages, the variety in the gameplay and of course since I know a lot of video game franchises each new character on their own is at least nice to check out. I might not have a huge connection with every character that might be chosen but in regards of the whole theme of characters throughout video game history, lots of the characters make sense. =3

Really just anybody from a game I have some sort of history with, or means something to me. I've never played Persona, Banjo & Kazooie, ARMS, or Minecraft, and never cared much for Fatal Fury or Dragon Quest from the installments I have briefly played. I also never really got into Fire Emblem, although I did recently play through the first two games and did enjoy them. If I were to get into the series though, it would be chronologically from the beginning, meaning it would likely be 10+ years before Byleth in particular means anything to me, especially since certain entries being remakes and the like would only delay my interest in wanting to dive into them too soon after playing the original (which is why I haven't yet moved on to 3 despite it being over a year or two). That leaves only Piranha Plant so far as a character from a franchise I've actually played, or cared about, and he was the one I didn't even have to pay for.

Well, that makes sense if you simply don't know the characters enough. Are there certain game franchises you'd enjoy to see represented yet because they hold a special place for you as well as the history of video games in your opinion? X3

I uploaded a YouTube video awhile back discussing my wish list for Fighters Pass 2. In that video I mentioned Geno from Mario RPG, Sparkster from the Rocket Knight franchise, Ukulele Pichu from Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs, Klonoa from the Klonoa series, Kain from Final Fantasy 4, and Amaterasu from Okami. Here's a link to the video if you'd like to hear the reasoning behind my choices: https://youtu.be/vyEYiCkOF5M

Ah, you are one of those people. While the list seems interesting, I kinda doubt that any of them really would be warranted by the significance they have been leaving in video game history.
If you'd go by who really would stand for Mario RPG games, Geno is just a partner character. Paper Mario would be the clear choice to represent it if they'd specifically go there. Rocket Knight Adventures would be a Konami thing plus from a franchise that is not cared about by its own creators.
Klonoa is a nice Namco character but I somewhat doubt they'd choose his over the widely more popular Tekken franchise.
Another Pichu? I doubt they'd put an echo of a Pikachu-esque character over, well, a Pikachu or different Pokémon if even.
While there could be a slim, slim chance for another Final Fantasy character somebay, I feel like they'd go with either another FFVII or a character from their newest installment instead from IV, simmply because to them, such characters would be more iconic and representative of the franchise. And there are also more Square-Enix franchises that are huge and could take said spot (Lara Croft from Tomb Raider or Sora from Kingdom Hearts for example)
Amaterasu is a neat pick but in terms of Capcom, there yet again would be some franchises quite bigger in regards of popularity. I'm personally a bit surprised that the only had a Resident Evil Spirits event. Said franchise definitely belongs in every article about vide game genres, specifically Survival Horror.

I'm one of those people? And what kind of person is that?

As for that list, those are only my personal highlights. I'd love to see absolutely anybody from any game I'm familiar with, and even characters I know nothing about I still can get excited for other people, and also understand why they were chosen. Just the other day even a friend and I were talking about how Steve is an excellent and appropriate choice for a Smash fighter because of Minecraft's significance and popularity, but that doesn't mean he holds any significance to me personally. Besides, in case you didn't watch the video, many of those choices aren't just because I want those characters, but because I believe they're good fits for the franchise as explained in the video. If it's just about the characters themselves then I could no doubt come up with better ones, but most of those were chosen with my personal interests in combination with their applicability to the series in terms of either gameplay, or what Smash Bros represents.

Well, one of the people who is moreso having a list of personalized wish characters over the more likely choices. I see a bunch of people who have those particular choices like Geno, which honestly are really much out of the let field. But one could argue that it would be just my opinion.

In regards of YouTubers trying to make a point, I personally found the "Smash Math" series by https://www.youtube.com/c/BackseatYT quite interesting.

I see. Well if I wanted to go with likely characters then it would just be more disappointment like it's been thus far, so there would be little reason for me to do that.

Yeah, I already looked at your video and rather than a prediction it's simply a wish list. After Minecraft coming to Smash Bros. something akin to Fortnite seems more and more likely either. ^_^'

A Fortnite character could be interesting, but having another character with building mechanics right after Steve would be rather bland. I'd rather see characters who are more wholly unique, and bring something to the table that no other fighter does.

It gets pretty much difficult with the amount of characters to specifically bring a character completely unique by now though. And in regards of gameplay there surely are certain rules that cannot be broken like for example that all attacks of a character would block another character from attacking for example, or having attacks that turn a character invisible simply because it would be quite unbalanced in terms of exploitable advantages.
When it comes to characters that come off as unique it's mostly the nature of the character as what Species they are, what body type they got and perhaps what type of attacks they perform. In terms o melee attackers, we got different sorts of martial artists or sword fighters, people who punch and kick ram into people or jump on them, clobber and slash.
Ranged attackers use projectiles fired from pistols, rocket launchers, magic books, fire breaths, thrown items and the sort.
We got sets of characters, characters that get supported by additional characters, characters in vehicles, characters that are machines, beasts, humans, toons, pets, plants, blocks and whatnot.

Yeah, but even so I feel like they've been managing quite well with most of the DLC. Piranha Plant has some very unique attacks, and his poison breath in particular is totally unlike anything else. Joker has his boosted state that he can enter by blocking attacks with his down special. Hero has MP, and a spell list. Banjo & Kazooie have one particular special move that's super powerful but with limited uses. Terry is like an alternative to Ryu with different sorts of moves, and a powered-up state. Byleth has a wide assortment of weapons that gives them a wider variety of attacks than swordsmen. Min Min has her stretchy and switchable arms. Steve can seemingly create blocks, which will be interesting for sure. While some are more interesting and unique than the others, the fact that almost every DLC character has managed to bring something new to the table goes to show that there's still plenty of potential yet to be seen in the variety department. Especially when comparing them to characters with many similarities to others, such as Fox & Falco, or Captain Falcon & Ganondorf, or even how characters like Lucario, Mewtwo, and Samus all have similarly chargeable projectiles.

I personally wouldn't mind them adding more character skins later on after the Figthers Pass yet. Like we could have more characters in with the same moveset yet different looks.
Examples:
-Olimar getting a Louie and Anne skin
-Yoshi a getting a Boshi and woolly Yoshi skin
-Pokémon Trainer getting different Trainers and starters from otehr reagions
Might be that such likely would need extra sounds to record but elseway it could be like a quick way to expand on existing franchises yet.

That would be neat. Problem is that I imagine they want each character to have the same number of alternate skins, meaning if they did that for a few then they'd probably want to force themselves to come up with some for everybody else as well to keep the numbers even, which may be complicated. I do wish though that some of the alternate costumes were a bit more elaborate, such as giving Samus her actual suits instead of just recoloring the Varia.

Well, if they'd sell such skins it wouldn't necessarily have to be an equal number. It's not like the stages are also completely equally made per franchise either. Speaking of which, I sure would enjoy some franchises simply represented via stages, not necessarily through characters as a fighter.
Like something akin to Chibi Robo could make a nice Nintendogs-sque stage with toys mixing up things with their appearances. Tetris would make lots of sense as a bunch of Pokéfloats-like platforms, and Rhythm Heaven is all about fun music and beats in a colorful presentation. Could make for a fun Wario Ware-esque stage.

Indeed. There's plenty of potential with stages from games that may not work quite so well in regards to playable characters. In regards to that though, maybe they just don't think it would be worth the money when it comes to licensing for third-party properties, and pretty much all of Nintendo's non obscure stuff is already represented in the roster.