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Nostalgia. You simply played them at a time where you were less cynical, and thus unable to judge them the same way you would have as an adult.
Although I will say that I miss how a lot of early gen mon were less obviously based on a single IRL animal. I don't know what the fuck kind of animal Nidoking and Venusaur are meant to be based on and I like that about them.