All right, something you guys need to keep in mind is that you're not always going to be in a Ryu v. Ryu fight (where all of your arguements are coming from). If you want to slow down the hadouken's response rate then you're going to need to slow down the response rate/level builder of all the projectiles.

Ex: Spiderman's "web ball" comes out at almost the same speed as the hadouken, and even faster in the air. If you do any kind of dramatic decrease in the hadouken's speed then it's going to get a lot harder for Ryu users to play against web ball-only Spiderman users.

You'd also notice this trend from playing against drill claw abusers, or beam users... even kou ken only chun li's will be a lot harder for Ryu's to stand up against with his own projectiles.

If you think about it, then there's only 2 real options you can expect for this path to take:

1. Dead end, nothing happens with anyone's projectiles.

2. Everyone's projectile's and projectile-like moves are decreased in speed.

I would "like" to see the 2nd one taken action upon where in we'd see a lot more slide claw like moves, but I'm going to see where everyone goes with this.

Just a side note, response time was dramatically lowered in both the optic sweep and slide claw... both seemed to have worked out fairly well in cyclops users tend to use a different projectile and wolverine users tend to use a different bolt/dash type attack.