>>40974451To further add to your observation, the head producer of the main versions of the Monster Hunter games apparently isn't too popular in Japan either. For example he supposedly designed Kushala to be an annoying fight that encouraged using ranged weapons over melee, and recently with World was the one behind the Ancient Forest, which is the most disliked map in the game.
Luckily for Monster Hunter, he isn't on top of the franchise like Masuda is for Pokemon, and really good, competent devs are aloud full creative control of the G-rank versions or spinoffs like Portable 3rd, Generations and Generations Ultimate (the one who directed GU is the lead director for Iceborne).