Lets all ignore the other DOA games he made and assume the man is incapable from learning from his mistakes.
Well that only works if he thinks he made mistakes and I'm pretty sure he does not...
Also I feel that he made that stuff with the 4 pillars up just recently. Last time he talked about pillars there were only 3 (DoA,DoAX and NG as the pillars of DoA)
But for funnsies, let's look at them
Casual pillar:
Don't see why this game is harder to pick up than previous games the core move set of most characters didn't change much and 95% of DoA5s mechanics were in previous iterations. This time around the game at least tries to teach it's system to newcomers... and no one complained that story mode on "Normal" is too hard, while that was a fairly common complaint about DoA4 and that is something that really turns "Casuals" away, since no one likes to play on "Easy" (and still get his/her ass kicked)
Finally since most previews of LR still describe the game as "mashy", it seems that the casual audience does not notice they have a harder time to pick up the game
Pro pillar:
Well if he put any effort on that pillar with DoA4, he failed pretty hard in most peoples eyes. Having NG as a hardcore action game does not help anyone here either.
Violence pillar:
Erm... the series only has the minimum amount of violence for a fighting game, doesn't it? The original NG was not particularly violent either... only NG2 turned the series into a gore fest.
Sexy pillar:
I'm pretty sure we only have the current DLC "issues" because of DoAX. If the intention was to separate the erotic stuff from the Fighting Game, he did a pretty poor job. Shouldn't have called it DoA and should not have used the same cast of characters (I mean the girls are the only reason why you would call this game DoA to begin with). All it did was to show people how far TN is willing to go with the girls...
And there is also 2U... had a gravure mode as well (only images, but still the same purpose: look at the girls) and already featured a good amount of the fetish outfits we have in DoA5...