I more or less experienced the same thing but, luckily I have a community of fellow BB players whom I also engage the game with and are into it as much as me. Granted I don't always have the time to attend meetups. It's good to have a community of players, and csex is by far the most intricately developed iteration of the game. I disliked cs2, and my love of cs1 was because hakumen was so incredibly strong for no reason.
it's because GG was ArcSys' way of blatantly challenging Capcom and their Street Fighter series (GGX sprites were drawn exactly to be 2-4 times the size of SF sprites, can't remember the number). If that's not a blatant challenge to Capcom I don't know what is.