I don't think anyone would have been referring to this aspect which is probably more of a thing in Azure? Cold Steel didn't mess her character up by adding weird gimmicks, they did it by taking away everything else about her character that people liked. (Though I actually somewhat liked what they did with her towards the middle and end of Cold Steel 4, but I might not have known that depending on what point in time I would have been commenting.) ---
I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways.