>>548918851. Arceus was not ever confirmed to have created the universe, it was only thought to have done so in myth, and Cyrus believing Dialga/Palkia could have done so is baseless and done contextually within a franchise where humans frequently misunderstand Pokemon (Mewtwo, Maxie/Archie with their titans)
2. Arceus draws more heavily from Eastern mysticism, it's design evokes a qilin, enlightened bodhisattva through the 1000 arm shit, and it's tied to Shintoism where every god essentially plays a role, in Arceus's case that of creation, not necessarily of being some kind of omnipotent god like in Abrahamic religions
Arceus has gotten frequently misrepresented thanks to the fanbase, not Gamefreak themselves who actually made a fairly compelling way of making a Shinto/Buddhist god into a Pokemon along with the inherent mystique to it.
It's when Legends Arceus came along, written by the same dumbass faggots who never actually understood what Arceus is, turned it into both the Judeochristian God and simultaneously made it an utter faggot while spitting in the face of much of the mystery, and of course the redditors both here and everywhere else in this godforsaken fanbase began basedfacing over the ""EPIC LORE""
Tl;Dr "god" pokemon weren't bad for the series, nu-gamefreak and modern poketards were bad for the series, same as usual
