>>10926371It's funny, at the time everyone liked Energon much more because it had articulation again. The Decepticon figures are at least ok, but some like Demolishor are very wonky. Gimmicks killed the Autobots.
Armada being bricks was frustrating back then, but these days it makes them almost charming as a weird outlier. Where as, so many G1 homages have come out and refined the engineering that Energon's G1-esque guys seem prehistoric.
People like to point out that Cybertron's original anime wasn't intended as a continuation, but the toys absolutely were and it's cool to see the evolution of some characters in engineering.