No portable and online only were confirmed since the beggining, what I am talking about are those made up concerns like casualized/westernized gameplay, lack of weapons, that imaginay fee that nobody from Capcom ever hinted, etc.
Comments about Capcom only having what they showed on the demo after 4 years of dev time have already appeared, so it's a matter of time anyway.
No, this was actually a possibility (and precedented on console) and when they were asked at E3 (the Silliconera article), they did not say "no". That's their own doing.