This is not news, and it's not a rumor. We have a KOF forum for these very questions.
What is the question? Can you combo like in the Capcom vs series? No. Can you juggle people? Sort of. Can you do combos while coming down from a jump while still being in the air? Sort of. It's still KOF. The juggles are harder to do this year, and in quite a few cases, taken out all together (Billy's corner DM POS combo has finally been taken out after years of abuse). Kyo's Orochinagi after a QCF-K has a very very strange timing that would make it seem that it's also been nurfed. It hasn't, but it's very hard this year.
Sorry if I didn't answer your questions well, but I'm not sure what the exact question was.
Spike