I tried to give SFV another shot yesterday. Started the game on Steam assuming that like other fighting games, it's been keeping itself auto-updated through Steam. Nope. It wants to update via the the client itself with a large update. Tried messing around in training mode and remembered that the game still runs like ass on my Alienware Alpha even at 720p/medium settings (and anything below medium looks really, really bad - the game's performance scaling is terrible).
Thought about trying story mode but got a warning that since it was updating and therefore offline, I wouldn't earn any fight money.
Closed out the app and played other fighting games. It may very well be a great technical street fighter but some of the decisions they made are just brain dead.