3/4ths of those stages are fine in my opinion. The other 1/4 I don't even care either way. To use something so strong as TERRIBLE is just kind of overreacting.
Though, I wouldn't mind some of the older stages, looking at some of those DOA2 pictures just reminds me of how bright and cartoony the game was in the past. If they brought them back, I doubt they'd be EXACTLY the same as people remember.
And, I think that people would do well to keep in mind that we have no idea what resources and money TN have at their disposal for this or how much it is relative to when the vanilla version was in development. IF we say that perhaps they got started IMMEDIATELY (I don't even know if they did) after 5+ went gold, then that's only what, 4-5 months so far for development? I know as consumers we should hold devs to the flames sometimes, but being completely unreasonable about wants isn't going to get anyone anywhere. The devs talked about how they ran out of time before? Imagine how corporate is gonna treat an expansion in terms of how much leeway the devs have. Nothing is as simple as copy-paste (if you want to make if work and look right). Especially since DOA2/3/4/D were all in the "old" style. And keep in mind that gold time is probably only about 2 months away from now.
So, the question is (if you dislike DLC), what do you reasonably think they can put into the game in these next 2 months? With testing, QA, having to go back and fix problems, etc.? If you don't mind possibly paying for more DLC on release, then sure, blow up TN's Twitter with 12 more stages and 5 more characters you think should be added to the game. I actually don't think stages actually work very well as paid DLC for a fighting game, but maybe they'll have the revenue to pay for it from other things regarding the game. But, who knows if they'll be ALLOWED to keep going on that stuff for so long after release...
Anyhoo, some of those past argumentative posts ARE pretty damn terrible. We need to class it up around here, I say.
Speaking of "classy", those pictures of Rachel and Momiji defeated on the site are definitely ridiculous in terms of pandering...