The corner is like the strongest point of 95% of characters in this game, and in standard fighters it is a strong place to "box" your opponent and obtain really strong momentum. Calling it spamming combos in the corner is silly if most characters obtain max damage or their best oki from that situation, you should be able to block and retaliate.
If you aren't willing to force people into corners, you should really not be playing EX haha, that's like 70% of the game now and days. It's not really a "cheap" or "gay" strategy though, so you should really learn how to get people into the corner... Hazama gets his max damage in that situation too.
Very ggs to Gio and Scrub, my bang will never feel the same way again :<