The theory behind the character is that she's designed to be polarized: she has to put in a relatively higher effort to get a clean hit compared to most of the cast who have better range or frame data on their normal attacks, but the payoff from that hit is also greater. Despite being more mix-up based than strictly throw-based, she follows the "grappler gameplan" of just spending her life bar to close the distance so that she can get in range for the payoff.
I wrote a pretty long post on this earlier.
That's the theory, anyway. Whether the risk/reward is properly balanced is anybody's opinion, and we'll have a better idea of that as the months go on. A lot of people would do themselves a favor by taking a more thorough look at the bigger picture and realize how easy it is to keep Mika from getting anything started in a lot of cases. Just standing in whiff-punish range or not letting her get away with negative-on-block moves goes a long way.
You also have to think about the resources spent. That combo used a full V-Trigger and CA bar.
Nobody likes that mirror match. It is a nightmare.
