that all speaks to the fact that tao has favorable matchups against the entire cast
and not of the part where she dies really fast. her defense is not that limited - fuck that, limited defense is characters like makoto, not characters frame 1 low profile, frame 1 low invuln, 7f invuln 18f total backsteps, 6f 2as with double range, etc. it's more that she presents plenty of opportunities to do something random during her pressure, and it only takes a couple random things during her pressure to kill her. or just randomly pressing buttons in neutral. because although she has an exceeding strong neutral, anytime you get in neutral you pretty much could have done somehting in there to hit her instead.
really, against tao, the more random stuff I do, the better I do.
i mean, I don't want there to be any misunderstanding, I think tao is a totally dumb character that is probably hated more than Noel. Noel tries to force her way with random bullshit. Taokaka forces you to play like a chicken with its head chopped off.
also I guess I don't think she is more prone to randomness than characters like makoto or tsubaki, but rather, there are characters that can reduce randomness to an extreme, like lambda, litchi, and rachel.