Dimensions Genra was a far more refined version of this. I miss him as a character, even if his sword stance was one of the worst in existence. But he was amazing in Dimensions even with his slightly shallow movepool, mostly thanks to 6T, 6P, and P+K.
And in Dimensions that's exactly what they did. This isn't dimensions. He didn't need a massive movelist because half the difficulty was just getting to him through his projectile spam. Remember we're talking about a guy who completely fucked with the camera, had knockback and pushback on everything, couldn't be held and couldn't be thrown. Even knocking the guy down resulted in a projectile shockwave.
He has a total of 17 moves available here and his weapon doesn't even render because its a hack. So of course he seems boring. Render his weapon properly, flesh out his movelist and gain access to his projectiles and suddenly he's not quite so boring.