I get that Diamond and Pearl are a bit slow and not the best when it comes to Variety (which was fixed in Platinum) and the gen 4 remakes where dogshit but it isn't the worst gen, gen 2 has worst variety since most of the pokemon you encounter are gen 1 pokemon and the 3D games aside from gen 7 are worst than platinum.

I see it on this board all the time, so many people seen to hate gen 4.

I grew up with gen 4 and I will admit its not the best but its not the worst, I'm not blinded by nostalgia otherwise I wouldn't think gen 5 was the best and I didn't even play a gen 5 game until when I was already an adult which was back when gen 8 was the latest gen because gen 5 looked unappealing at first.

Is it that the gen 4 haters have only played Diamond and Pearl and have never played Platinum? If so then what if I decided that Ruby and Sapphire are shit but Emerald is amazing but I never played Emerald so I can just pretend it never existed and gen 3 was always shit which is not true and I love gen 3 more than gen 4.