Is it just me or did they REALLY stack the odds against Kotal Kahn?

He has access to 4 different totems. It isn't necessarily the easiest to get them going, but I get that. That's the fair part. But it seems like it's kinda bullshit how they go away whenever Kotal is hit with a krushing blow, fatal blow, stage hazard krushing blow. On top of that, whenever he himself does any one of the three I mentioned to an opponent, all of his totems still go away, and also aren't calculated during any of these sequences. These cinematic sequences are a huge part of MK11, it really isn't fair for you to take full damage AND have your x3 +Defense totems taken away upon being hit by hitting one of these. Even if you don't enjoy playing as Kotal Kahn, the totems are a huge part of playing him since he doesn't have the greatest combo potential and he's fairly slow.

What do you think? Can you see how the new cinematics mess up this character big time? I'm not at all saying that they don't belong in the game, far from it, I'm saying it seems like an oversight that they would take away your totems from these happening.