There's a button on top which says "Streams".
There's the no.1 nightmare ranked streamer that streams very often, plus other streamers.
NOBODY falls for CE or 6A+B gimmicks any more. They all adapted and are punishing and baiting and avoiding properly.
NOBODY wins in tournaments with Nightmare any more. Most switched to a better char.
The only person remaining that is still complaining is here, in this thread.
In the time this argument lasted, you would have had time to enter practice mode 50 times and learn it yourself.
The final conclusion, which everyone with decent soul calibur knowledge already understood and proved, is:
CE is decent, as far from OP as possible, not even up for discussion.
Ball is a gimmick as it always was, and it will remain a gimmick which all top players will avoid, punish and bait as they already had for years.
These things will NOT get nerfed because they are not even close to overpowered, so stop complaining and learn to counter them like everyone else already did.