Something about this episode I forgot to mention. DRN, you say that Emil never dropped combos back in the Kaillera days. I played Emil a few times (MOTW/KOF) and he dropped a ton of combo's. I don't recall him doing Terry's feint chain on me once. Even in KOF, he would drop things, and he wasn't as good as he is nowadays. I played several people on Kaillera that used macros/program pads, and it was very obvious, especially when they would get combos 100% of the time in the worst possible delay (Storm, a MOTW player who would use the Jae sD, d+AC, dash, sD.... and pull it off 100% of the time. Emil was never anything like that when I played him or watched people play him. Even til this day I still see him drop combos when I watch his matches.
As for the whole button binding debate, I personally feel its BS. Practice the combos until you get them down. Hitting three buttons at once is a chore at times, and not everyone can hit them 100% of the time, but the more one practices the more successful one will be in pulling it off. the 3K/3P only recently became allowed in tournaments (SF4 era).