From Evenhubs comments section:
'Guys the days of truly hype combos are dead. It's okay, accept it. SF5 has a lot of other things going for it and I really like the game, but the combos are pretty lackluster. The fact that desk is going for full screen fireball dash combos pre-release to do something interesting is a pretty good indicator of that.
We are sacrficing combos for accessibility, but we are gaining a bunch of other good things that SF4 didn't have such as a faster game pace, extreme punishment for reversals, lack of fadc safety nets in general, etc. No game is perfect, and I accept that SF5 is sacrificing some depth/hype in the combo department but that the game is still good enough overall to make it competitively interesting.'
Couldn't have put it better myself