I think that Capcom is setting up for having a small time jump in Street Fighter in a few years. They're putting SFV near the end of the current timeline, advancing stories along the way. You can already see this a good amount with Ken's son growing and M. Bison with white hair, etc etc.
I'm going to guess by Street Fighter 7, we'll be playing Ken's son versus Ryu junior or something like that.
Street Fighter 7: The character are 6 years older once the OG players are 30 years older!
Stories just feel like they'll flounder around some until they let people make life-worthy advancement. If Ryu's story still ends with "And his hunt for a challenge continues!", then will it be a good story mode, even if it has 20 cinematics and full voicework?
Maybe the Alpha-era tutorial is a good sign though. It'll be kinda nice to fight through legendary figts of the characters life, up to this point, if we get to see their progression in a few ways.