>>53449317if having more pokemon was objectively a good trait, in your eyes, you would be sucking off games like platinum and oras instead, considering they have bigger dexes and an overall higher number of obtainable pokemon than emerald
but the fact is, the autism genwar images that get tossed around on this board are not made for the sake of demonstrating why people like certain gens, they are nothing more than vaccum-sealed nitpicks and cherrypicking organized into generic images designed to make one gen look good while making another one look bad.
no one is going to go "WELL, THIS GAME'S ROUTE 1 HAS ONE LEDGE WHILE THIS GAME'S ROUTE 1 HAS TWO, THEREFORE THIS GAME IS OBJECTIVELY BETTER THAN THE OTHER" while playing, because that form of analysis is something you're only going to get when you're actively looking for things to turn into complaints.
