It sounds like to me that Inkling needs some refining both on the player’s side and on the balancer’s side. I’m suspecting that Inkling hasn’t been properly refined yet by the balancers. What I mean is that they haven’t adjusted some of minor things about Inkling like her strict kill confirms. I feel that they may want to make them more practical but Inkling is too new that they are still don’t understand her enough, unlike Ken or Caption Falcon. Let’s not forget that Joker and other dlc characters will receive much better treatment than the main cast just for being the ones with a pricetag attached to them. In other words, the dlc characters will be made to work and completely realized (except for minor tweaking) before they are even released on the Nintendo store.
What makes me think they’ll approve of improving Inkling kill confirms is that it doesn’t seem to go against their design philosophy. What they don’t like is a non-heavy making ridiculously early kills with a smash attack or aerial. They do however, want non-heavy characters like Joker, Fox, Falco, or Greninja to have practical kill confirms and I can easily see Inkling being a part of that, especially when they only kill at high percentages.