Improving at fighting games comes one step at a time. I remember when I played with Juri online on USF4 in 2016 and my roommate asked why I used U1 (always used W/both tho), it doesn't do any damage. This was also my mentality back when I started playing AE 2012 when I would've liked to take things further, I considered U1 bad because it didn't do any damage.