I'm not a tournament level player, never will be. In fact, i pretty much suck so, i'll bet my opinion is completely invalid to most of you. Regardless, i'm going to throw in my 2 cents anyway.
I think Hilde is broke, more so than Algol(yeah, thats right) but whatever, thats not the point. Absolutely, positively, nothing should be banned. The game should be played to it's fullest as it stands(save adjusted health, soul guage). I feel that as we continue to subtract things from the game, it's not the same game anymore. You all need to realize that pretty much every new character in this game has either been banned or is in some sort of debate/discussion for being banned. Thats pathetic, and really fucked up to anyone who purchased this game, is at a competitive level, and tried to pick the new characters for the sake of trying new things.
Now, there's a flipside to this. You have to understand a players perspective(especially tourney level) going up against Hilde. I find that there's not really a strong argument given in favor of her. The bottom line is the risk/reward ratio, which is just too strong. We shouldn't really criticize everyone's opinions on the matter though. Naturally, if someone mains Hilde, they are going to defend her, as they should. Likewise for anyone who has to fight her.
Wether you believe she destroys the community or not, i say forget about it. The developers should know that they failed to properly balance their game. Maybe letting the community fall on it's face is the only way to get it done. I would assume that this game(despite it's issues) is better than 3 at least right? And didn't the community basically go to shit over all that VC garbage then? Now we have a better game. This may sound a bit odd to some of you but i feel you're doing Namco's work for them with all this shit. Seriously, do they pay you? Let them balance their game. Right now, i feel the only way they'll really notice is if it's blatantly obvious no one plays the damn game. Perhaps banning and such only sends them the message that they can continue to half ass testing because the community is fully capable of banning characters for them. Sounds a bit crazy i know but, in the midst of all this discussion, this is what came to my mind.