Yeah a lot of other older games did as well, it doesn't mean much.
I like sfiv a lot personally, although i did find certain moves and characters very frustrating to play against like el fuerte, t.hawk, seth (i did enjoy having seth as a secondary though) but with such a big roster i guess it would be inevitable to have characters like that.
The sad thing for me is how big the game could have been and the potential squandered but i think the sales are also the fault of previous capcom fg's and how people felt burned ,regardless of whether it was justified all the time or not, and not just the very bad launch and the same i fear for mvci.