Listen here, fucker.
I put my heart and soul into Smogon. Everyone at Smogon is doing their absolute best for the metagame. But no. Because it's not VGC, the GameFreak wannabes, we're completely disregarded.
So what if we use bans? Who cares? We work the 6th gen into a solid meta. We ban a lot? Loads of the same teams? You could say the same for VGC. Some of them are great, some of them are OU-The Team clones and some are absolute horseshit.
We aren't just a meta. Sure, the meta is unbalanced and is a copy-paste (almost) of the battle maison, but Haunter and the others are working so hard, SO hard to balance these mons and make the best meta they can. Me and other mods are working on Showdown, the simulator. We try our absolute best too.
Why are you so elitist? VGC might be visually appealing, but what if the strats are luck based? What if the meta is unfair? There are so many problems that may occur. And I know any of this won't happen, because once again, you'll have about fifteen votings to decide every ounce of the meta.
And that's another thing that bothers people. VGC as a meta is extremely slow. You might say, "We're nearly done!", but you're not. You're timestalling because if you don't, you can't win. When your battles are finally finished, due to the speed you think at, it will either be 2020 and very outdated, or be bare-bones and lack any actual heart.
You people need to look at VGC from the outsider's perspective. You are a very good meta as a whole, but you have flaws, and one of those flaws is that this isn't actually the community's meta. It's YOUR meta.
tldr; fuck off and leave Smogon and GF alone. (Yes, GF. You've ridiculed them before too.)
