You're assuming this requires conscious thought ("trying to pick out"). That's not how skilled response works. Baseball batters don't think about whether the pitch is slow or fast, curved or straight. They just recognize the cues. I can recognize someone's weight moving forward pretty easily, and I simply use what works with that pattern of movement.Ok. Sensible part first. Two reasons your dual method is high risk.
1. Fighting happens really quite fast.
2. Getting punched in the face can be very distracting.
So you are trying to pick out if a punch is sloppy enough to use as a counter or tight enough to use a different counter in what could be an attack by a guy you know nothing about in a fight that could be done in seconds.
If you mess it up and enter on a sloppy shot. And it is not as sloppy as you fist thought you could eat a shot that ends your ability to continue.
This is again not because I do MMA and you do Aikido. This is just how that dynamic works.
Which is especially bad in a street fight and why I continue to preach people to fight conservatively..
And now for the silly bit. You can't sook about people making assumptions while making assumptions about them.
Suck it up princess and play the ball not the man. I am not trying to hurt your feelings.
I am trying to explain why what you suggest really isn't going to work very well without having to resort to just telling you I have tried all this stuff you are suggesting. Did it in real fights. And it is risky.
As for the other comment, this isn't a game, so I'm not playing anything. You're making unsupported statements and getting condescending. Commenting on that is not ad hominem - it's an acknowledgement of a problem with your argument.