So I wouldn't really say Shimbori screwed himself, except for the EVO incident. He definitely screwed himself there. Everything else was the company screwing him. There is no way he could take on as much work as they were expecting of him and produce a good result. He had too many projects.
Hayashi just scheduled people, ran budget, and negotiated the contracts for crossover content. He had nothing to do with 5's direction. Was all Shimbori.
And from conversations we've had with Shimbori, it became clear his producer role in 6 rendered him useless as a director, hence Nakamura...
Hayashi has no passion for DOA, neither does Itagaki. Shimbori does but he's being slowly assassinated by the company. And Nakamura will destroy the IP.
Had a bad connection to Zave earlier, but he was apparently using a VPN. Only had issues with me and nobody else, which was odd. Does lead me to think there's some node funkyness going on somewhere.
More like that a certain regions nodes are fucked and it's causing problems for all the inbetween. That happens a lot.
If it is an issue with netcode though, there's likely some common link you guys are sharing that doesn't apply to the rest of us. I still doubt that's the case though.
If you want me to break down the actual risk vs reward to taking a strike in this game vs other characters, she is actually far above average on the single guess department.