Injustice 2 won't have any DLC returnees, nor Tekken 7, so I don't see the argument there. Granted, those games did face a backlash for it, but not because they tried to sell them as DLC. After the poll, and the backlash of SCV, cutting out popular character probably isn't something PS wants to do.
Again, they want to make money... Money making has priority over complete satisfaction of the customer. Game companies are no charities.
An immense backlash can of course harm a game, look at Street Fighter 5 and Marvel vs Capcom Infinite (which I forgot to include on my list) but Capcom are idiots, they seem to never learn...
Today a developer has to find the right balance of giving customers what they want and holding back what they can additionally sell them or what they can leave out completely for time and cost reasons.
For example, if absolute favorites like Talim, Taki and Sophitia are in this time, people won't be as mad if they keep Cassandra (similar to Sophitia) and Setsuka (not as important to the overall story) as DLC.
Another example would be Hwang. Do you really think after all this time they are required to bring him back to the initial roster and people would go crazy if not? He would be a good example for a perfect DLC character, since he is popular but not that crazy popular, he isn't an integral part of the story and he's so similar to Yunseong.
I just hope Yunseong will be in from the beginning.
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