I was thinking of making a kick escape(backwards) comparable to knockdown escape before I went out of order.
My god man, just remove the fucking arc/cone around the leg and foot (similar to old kicks) and remove the stagger affect after the kick has stop "kicking" (similar to how it used to be).
How this borked ass shit is still being discussed as left in the game is amazing to me (it's really not, I expect this after over 2.5 years of being active in the community and forums). Stop breaking the game and then implementing a counter to it, just fix the original problem...that would be a great start.
It starts with a nerf, and then something else becomes OP so gotta now nerf that (due to the first nerf). Or implement one thing, and it borks something, so we get another implementation that counters it, rather than just unborking the original thing.